I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy..

I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that..

There's nothing greater than a girl.... Well a kid, your daughter, but that's a girl too..

I sit and I write automatically. I don't really try to write. My subconscious mind takes over and writes the songs for me. Songs come very easily for….

Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I'm finished with it..

You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song..

You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it..

J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his mu….

So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long..

I earned my famous name..

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnose….

I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?.

People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and….

I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of….

You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part..

I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program duri….

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John..

I'm happy; I'm a happy person..

You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road The roots are deep inside us It's the rhythm in our soul..

I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love..

I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey..