If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones

Strawberry fields forever

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

We have gold because we cannot trust governments

I don't want to start a movement that mirrors religion. I don't want to create the church of the non-believers where I'm the preacher and we're all gathering together and reciting things.

I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.

The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.

Learn everything you know in all keys.

In America, what makes us so successful is the innovation, the competition, the focus on merit.

I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.

If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

John McCain is the guy that has advocated for war everywhere. He would bankrupt the nation.