I leaned over and said, 'sorry about that,' but Lennon didn't even move and said it was all right. I said, 'you know we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you guys, The Beatles,' and he said, 'Everything we got, we stole from Chuck Berry.' And that was my first brush with The Beatles. |
I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then. |
I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960 |
I remember when we were on 'Dick Cavett'! |
I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything. |
I think that through that kind of incredible, strange confrontation, people started to understand me, |
I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child. |
I would have turned round right then and walked away. |
I'm not afraid of dying. To me dying is like getting out of one car and into another. |
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people. |
I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any fuckin' whore or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night. |
I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time. |
I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more? |
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. |
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. |