I Always Read The Papers, The Political

Either I'm A Genius Or I'm Mad, Which Is It? "no," I Said, "i Can't Be Mad Because Nobody's Put Me Away; Therefore I'm A Genius." Genius Is A Form Of Madness And We're All That Way. But I Used To Be Coy About It, Like Me Guitar Playing. But If There's Such A Thing As Genius - I Am One. And If There Isn't, I Don't Care.

The Continual Awareness Of What Was Going On Made Me Feel Ashamed I Wasn't Saying Anything. I Burst Out Because I Could No Longer Play That Game Any More, It Was Just Too Much For Me.

I Cannot Be What I Am Not.

We Went To America A Few Times And [brian] Epstein Always Tried To Waffle On At Us About Saying Nothing About Vietnam. So There Came A Time When George [harrison] And I Said 'listen, When They Ask Next Time, We're Going To Say We Don't Like That War And We Think They Should Get Right Out.' That's What We Did.

You See, We're Influenced By Whatever's Going. Even If We're Not Influenced, We're All Going That Way At A Certain Time. If We Played A Stones Record Now -​ And A Beatles Record -​ And We've Been Way Apart,​ You'd Find A Lot Of Similarities. We're All Heavy. Just Heavy.