When you go on a stage, before you go on a stage you're really scared and you're really frightened. You don't know what to do. "Why did I say yes to this?" But once you're on the stage you think, "Okay."

I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

Your thoughts create reality. The most pragmatic way to create world peace is to use your power of visualization. Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace, Imagine Peace. Your thoughts will soon cover the planet. The most important thing is to believe in your power. It works.

Your thoughts create reality. The most pragmatic way to create world peace is to use your power of visualization. Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace, Imagine Peace. Your thoughts will soon cover the planet. The most important thing is to believe in your power. It works.

I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!

To have world peace, we all have to have a healthy understanding of what is necessary to bring World Peace. It's not something that will be dropped on our laps. We have to work for it. Until we get World Peace, I think my strongest passion stays in the effort to get it.

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.

I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting.

IMAGINE PEACE: Think PEACE, Act PEACE, Spread #‎ PEACE .

I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them. It’s the male chauvinistic society that we’re living in for the longest time, 3,000 years or whatever. And so I just wanted to point out the fact that men and women are magical beings. We are very blessed that way, so I’m just bringing that out. Don’t be scared of witches, because we are good witches, and you should appreciate our magical power.

I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself.

I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

I don't think you make a choice to be an artist. There was no decision for me. I've been expressing myself this way since I can remember.

I'm into indie music. I think indie is going to bring back the spirit in music. There was a time when it was all about accommodating the music business, the music was getting tasteless, but the spirit is back.

The male society is letting the men think of the women as something pretty and soft and that kind of thing. So I just wanted to show what we were. Women are the ones who actually created the human race. I mean without us bringing up the new generation, there wouldn't be a human race.

I love to work. Doing things we love is how we relax, I think.

Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished.

If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.

I am the type of person who would do something thoroughly if someone said, "I don't think you can do it." I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

Some people say, "Sometimes I have violent thoughts, what can I do?" So I say, "Well, have them!" Cos we should not try to control ourselves. It's very bad to control ourselves in this sense. If you have any emotion at all, if its a bad emotion or good emotion, think about it, you should just understand that you have those emotions. And it's good because we are people and we have all these emotions. And the result of that is you would become more and more peaceful. If you don't let those emotions be inside of you then you become extremely violent.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?

Women artists are still treated differently from men.

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

My life was pretty rough.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.

What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

Some people don't listen to my music because they say that I am an artist. And some don't want to go to my gallery shows, because they say I am a musician.

you don't need talent to be an artist. 'Artist' is just a frame of mind. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can communicate if they are desperate enough.

We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

Life with another person is always difficult.

In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.