"I got tired of the music business, to tell you the truth. It's one thing making a record, but if nobody plays it on the radio, what's the point of spending months in the studio?"
" The first time I took LSD, it just blew everything away. I had such an overwhelming feeling of well-being, that there was a God, and I could see him in every blade of grass."
" You can destroy our planet, but the souls are going to keep on going, they'll keep on getting new bodies and going on to other planets. So in the end, it doesn't really matter."
On the success of the Beatles' greatest hits CD, ``1:'' ``The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it. It's given kids from 6 to 16 an alternate view of music to what's been available for the past 20 years."
``I think the popular music has gone truly weird. It's either cutesy-wutesy or it's hard, nasty stuff. It's good that this has life again with the youth.''
``If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.''
" Music should be used for the perception of God, not for jitterbugging."
"The image of my choice is not Beatle George. Why live in the past? Be here now. And now, whether you like me or not, is where I am."
On his recovery from the December 1999 stabbing attack: ``I feel pretty good. You know, it's a difficult thing to get over. But I feel like I've gotten over it physically. My breathing is a little bit less percentage than it used to be. Other than that, I'm pretty cool.''
On the reissue of his first solo effort, ``All Things Must Pass:'' ``It was the biggest thrill in a way that it was my first record. To be able to do all my own songs on one record was a novelty at that point, you know.''
``Only the fact that people have written about the reissue have I realized that it spent seven weeks at No. 1. At the time I did it, I can't remember even taking any notice of it.''
"I'm not really a career person, I'm a gardener, basically."
"It's all well and good being popluar and in demand, but you know, it's ridiculous, really. I enjoyed it in sort of a teenage way up until then, and then I realized that this is serious stuff."
"We used to fly in and out of Beirut and all them places. I mean, you would never dream of going on tour now in some of the places we went. Especially with only two road managers."
" All the wives at that time really drove wedges between us. And then, after the years, when I saw John in New York, it was almost like he was crying out to tell me certain things."
" With the "My Sweet Lord" period and Bangladesh and the late 1960's, everybody did get a bit serious, but I never lost a sense of humor."
" If you're a guitar player, guitars have a genuine fascination, and it's nice to have songs about them. I recently saw a guitar program on TV in England, and it got into how it's phallic and sexual. Maybe that's so. I don't know in my case, but ever since I was a kid I've loved guitars and songs about them, like B.B. King's 'Lucille'"
" They'll come a time
When all of us must leave here
Then nothing Sister Mary can do
Will keep me here with you
As nothing in this life that I've been trying
Can equal or surpass the art of dying
Do you believe me?" 1970
