“I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.”

“If the mountains fell in the sea,Let it be, it ain't me.Got my own world to live throughAnd I ain't gonna copy you. Now, if 6 turned up to be 9,I don't mind, I don't mind.If all the hippies cut off their hair,I don't care, I don't care.Did, 'cos I got my own world to live throughAnd I ain't gonna copy you.”

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

“Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.”

“Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?”

“It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.”

“I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.”