If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

In art the best is good enough.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.