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

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" The Beatles and I became fast friends. "

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

" There's only one thing, in the end, and that's singing truth in a pleasant way. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I became a recluse many times and enjoyed a private life I didn't have during the '60s. "

" 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. "

" I learned that if you wait long enough, you just grow older. "

" Rock and jazz came together in a very powerful way on 'Barabajagal.' "

" I have amassed an enormous amount of songs about every particular condition of humankind - children's songs, marriage songs, death songs, love songs, epic songs, mystical songs, songs of leaving, songs of meeting, songs of wonder. I pretty much have got a song for every occasion. "

" A young person coming up and saying, 'I absolutely love your music,' is very encouraging. "

" 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. "

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

" I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in 1966, but in 1963 and 1964, I was absorbing enormous amounts of music, from baroque to jazz to blues to Indian music. "

" Publishers and record companies love a broken heart. "

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

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

" Linda's in all the songs. 'Sunshine Superman,' 'Hampstead Incident,' 'Young Girl Blues'... Linda's the muse. "

" 'Superman' had nothing to do with the superhero or physical power. It's a reference to the book 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra,' by Friedrich Nietzsche, who wrote about the evolution of consciousness to reach a higher superman state. "

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

" Society may shun bohemia, may put it down, may consider it useless and ineffective, but it is where everything cooks and boils and is created. "

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

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

" With songwriters like me who are prolific, you just write the song and then put it on tape. "

" Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it. "

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

" 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. "