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People say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but to me, that's what life's about. ”
The Beatles exist apart from myself. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion, and until the end of my life, people may see that shirt and mistake it for me. ”
You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want. ”
Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you. ”
It was all part of being a Beatle, really: just getting lugged around and thrust into rooms full of press men taking pictures and asking questions. ”
Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics, and I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me. ”
I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, 'Well, if they can write them, I can write them.' ”
In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that. ”
When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there. ”
At death, you're going to be needing some spiritual guidance and some kind of inner knowledge that extends beyond the boundaries of the physical world... it's what's inside that counts. ”