Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

It can never be again! Everyone always talks about a good thing coming to an end, as if life was over. But I'll be 40 when this interview comes out. Paul is 38. Elton John, Bob Dylan - we're all relatively young people. The game isn't over yet. Everyone talks in terms of the last record or the last Beatle concert - but, God willing, there are another 40 years of productivity to go.

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd wastemy life and be a poet. They were right.

I'm tired of this life in Bombay. I just want to start over again at my old place, in the company of all those little people whom I grew up with. If I sing, I want to do it for myself.