My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger. I don't see why everybody feel as though that they gotta tell me how to live my life.

Occasionally in life one develops a conviction so precious and meaningful that he will stand on it till the end.

I'm gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they're gonna like. It doesn't really matter.

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.