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" 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. "

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" Linda loves an argument, and I like to engage, too, but she knows that I'm a poet, so I will engage forever. We are in the Chinese astrology of dogs, and we are forever snapping at each other. "

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" My father brought me up to be a socialist. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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" 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. "

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

" I absorbed the vinyl of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Jack Elliott, to Michael McClure and then into the Beat poets, Allen Ginsberg. At campus, we were absorbing that stuff. We looked to America. "