You don't love someone out of loyalty. . . nor out of sympathy, either.
I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.
Everything government touches turns to crap.
Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.
My soul is that of a drummer. . . . I didn't do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.
Let's make my birthday, July the 7th at noon, Peace and Love Day. Everybody go, 'Peace and love. ' In the office, on the bus, wherever. It's still peace and love for me, I'm a product of the 60s and it was a very influential period in my life, and you know, my head was turned around a bit, my eyes were opened as it were. In fact, I even have it on my arm, 'Peace and love'. I see nothing wrong with peace and love.
You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.
The Jews invented the legend of the Nazi atrocities. . . Anyone who reads the Koran and the holy writings of the monotheistic religions sees what they did to the prophets, and what acts of madness and slaughter the Jews carried out throughout history. . . Anyone who reads these texts cannot think of co-existence with them, of peace with them, or about accepting their presence, not only in Palestine of 1948 but even in a small village in Palestine, because they are a cancer which is liable to spread again at any moment.
I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
If the authors and custodians of history turn out to have an attractive image, it is only reasonable to look beyond and ask whether the image they construct is accurate.
I'm constantly learning and evolving. I'm fascinated with life.