You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place.

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.

You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.

An opportunity leading to your blessing can totally change your life

Our life is nothing but expression of our deepest thoughts.

Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why?

Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.

If I wore a low-cut dress or showed my cleavage or did lad's mags, people would make such a big deal. That has stopped me from doing it, but I would if it felt right.

We have 23 million people unemployed. They're America's forgotten people. It's the damndest thing that this much collateral damage is acceptable to this [Barack Obama] administration.

A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone. It doesn't struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn't have to. It is different. And there's room in the garden for every flower.

We seek friendly relations with all nations. Any nation can be our friend without being any other nation's enemy.

I enjoy hearing the way people think. I always have.

I knew I wanted to do something that wasn't just domestic and endless but I had no idea what and no inkling that it could ever be music.