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" I can't help it: when something strikes me, I write it down. "

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" I have to say, post-fame was difficult because it wasn't just fame: it was super-fame of a kind that few have. It was attached to a generation's dreams, and my own personal dreams were mixed up in it, too. "

" I didn't know until later, but my uncle was quite a famous bohemian in Glasgow, and he played guitar. My father was a kind of a poetic bohemian, and he read me poetry. "

" My dad would always ask, 'How's the money?' but I was never interested. Millions came and went, stolen by the robbers in the music industry. But as someone said, 'You'll never be poor as long as you can pick up a guitar.' "

" Blues and jazz are such a root to music. "

" The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways. "

" Most people think that I heard Bob Dylan first and got a cap and harmonica. Really, it was Woody Guthrie. He was so influential. "

" I get plastic nails done in the salon. When I was younger, they were stronger, but now I get my nails built up. Then I can dance over the strings. I say, 'Okay, I need four nails; I'm a guitarist.' Sometimes if I'm in a strange place, the girl says, 'Yeah, all the guys say that.' "

" My particular space has always been quite unique in popular music. I have a background in R&B and hard rock and straight pop, but I never went all the way with any of those genres. "

" Publishers and record companies love a broken heart. "

" It's really much more than the plastic of album covers and record sales and dollars and cents. Music is just everybody's mother. Music is the power of you. "

" Myself and The Beatles thought surely there was a way through our fame and success to bring something to our generation to help chill the future out. "

" Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it. "

" I didn't realise that I was so accomplished on the guitar until someone said to me, 'How do you do that?' That someone was John Lennon. He asked me to teach him my technique. "

" Having had polio never held me back as I got older. Although having one leg smaller than the other isn't much fun, I could always get about without any trouble. Luckily, in the music industry, everyone was only interested in my singing and playing and not the size of my legs. "

" I meditate every day and do some hatha yoga every day. "

" Actually, I'm the Scottish Woody Guthrie. "

" The Beatles and I became fast friends. "

" Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation. "

" The poet is the voice of the people. And when the poet presents certain ideas, two phrases in one poem can alter a generation's view. So poets have always been feared - and controlled and jailed. "

" I'm a teacher, but I'm really a healer. "

" Part of being a pop star is image. I'm told by many of my female fans that I was the poster on their bedroom walls. But if I only had that - the image and the beauty and the curly locks - I would have been a 'normal' pop star, one who comes and goes after one hit record. "

" Before, it had been fame, and then super-fame came. And then it became super-super-fame. One loses one's personal life, really; you're recognized everywhere. But I embraced that. "

" After having polio, my right leg was weaker, so I wasn't great at football. But I swam lots and even did long-distance running. "

" I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Jimmy Page gave me the MOJO Maverick award. I got an Ivor Novella Award for my very first song. "

" I sounded like Bob Dylan for about five minutes, and it was blown out of all proportion. "

" Some music will make you dance. Other music helps you release tension. "

" I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it. "

" The similarity between my music and The Beatles' music is it has within it a very positive quality. It's woven with humor. "