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" Sometimes the songs just come to me. I don't sit down to write like you'd sit down to make a pair of boots. "

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" 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.' "

" The idea of the mystic solo, meditating away on his own, is only one path of yoga. Very early on, I chose the path of Life. One path is austerity and isolation, the other is Life. But they both lead to the same place. "

" The songs I write and sing try to say important things with a lightness. "

" In England, we'd leave school at 15 and go on to a college, and I went to further education in a town called Welling Garden City. I fully immersed myself in bohemia there, which included poetry and modern art, jazz, philosophy, social radicalism. "

" Publishers and record companies love a broken heart. "

" I can't save the world, but if I can share some ideas, people might be able to save themselves. "

" I've experimented with so many different sounds, it's difficult to say what the Donovan sound really is, but it's essentially my voice and guitars. "

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

" I regard myself as an international man, a citizen of the earth. "

" The planet is alive, and it's a woman. "

" 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. "

" In 1968, I bought a 114-foot yacht, built in 1946, and lived on the Greek islands for a while. We had an extraordinary time in it. Then I gave it to The Beatles. "

" All of us '60s pop stars came from old cities which had a jazz club, a folk club, a coffee house, and an art school. "

" 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 Faces are my old chums. We used to hang out. "

" It seems to be very clear that each new generation that comes - not only audiences but young bands as well - are very encouraged and enthused and inspired by my work. "

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

" The human race is ill because we have no contact with the lowest level of consciousness. "

" My guitar-playing always included bass lines, melody lines, and rhythm-guitar grooves. "

" A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water! "

" If you have a loved one, you can survive anything. "

" Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma and ignorance. "

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

" In the 1960s, I was convinced that the world was extremely mentally ill. "

" 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. "

" Celebrities can suffer a horrible loneliness even though they have millions of fans. I started doing meditations because I realized that a spiritual path was necessary. "

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

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" The 'Bohemian Manifesto' represents those that actually have to step out of society because they cannot join, but then they become the saviors of society because they create the actual possibilities of change. "