I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.

The only freedom you truly have is in your mind, so use it.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first . . . when you learn to live for others they will live for you.

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.

If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.