I wanted to be successful, not famous.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

The Beatles will go on and on.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Hippies are so phoney and fake.

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

With our love, we could save the world.

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

The Beatles will exist without us.

Love one another.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

We were the Spice Boys.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.

America has everything, why should they want us.

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.

As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.

After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going.

Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics, and I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me.

Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that's all it is.

Down through the ages, there has always been the spiritual path. It's been passed on - it always will be - and if anybody ever wants it in any age, it's always there.

Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.

I don't think the Beatles were that good. I think they're fine, you know. Ringo's got the best backbeat I've ever heard... Paul is a fine bass player... but he's a bit overpowering at times.

I just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn't care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out.

I just write a song, and it just comes out however it wants to. And some of them are catchy songs like 'Here Comes The Sun,' and some of them aren't, you know.

I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that's really me. The real me is something else.

I think it was John who really urged me to play sitar on 'Norwegian Wood,' which was the first time we used it. Now, Paul has just asked me recently whether I'd written any more of those 'Indian type of tunes.' He suddenly likes them now. But at the time, he wouldn't play on them.

I wanted to collaborate with someone, but it had to be someone I could work with and who wouldn't disrespect my past.

I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, 'Well, if they can write them, I can write them.'

I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.

I'll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you're actually doing things for truth's sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you're harmonizing with a greater power.

I'm not a fan of that sort of punky, heavy, tinny stuff. I like a nice melody.

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

If I go to someplace like Switzerland, I find a lot of uptight people because they're living amongst so much beauty; there's no urgency in trying to find the beauty within themselves. If you're stuck in New York, you have to somehow look within yourself - otherwise, you'd go crackers.

If I write a tune and people think it's nice, then that's fine by me, but I hate having to compete and promote the thing. I really don't like promotion.

If we'd know we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.

If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.

In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that.

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

Most people think when the world gets itself together, we'll all be okay. I don't see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. But I don't think that suddenly some magic happens and the whole lot of us will all be liberated in one throw.

Of course, once you've been a Beatle, you're never really out of it. People always want to know what you're up to, and if you don't immediately tell 'em, that's when they start making stuff up.

People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beefsteak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune, too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets.