You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

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

This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

This union has been divided in like a civil war - brother against brother - sister against sister. And I'm pulling it together. We've already seen evidence of that in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California. The first thing is we have to get on the same page. We have to be united in one cause.

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.