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Yoko [ono] Was Showing Me Some Of These Haiku In The Original. The Difference Between Them And Long Fellow Is Immense. Instead Of A Long Flowery Poem The Haiku Would Say 'yellow Flower In White Bowl On Wooden Table' Which Gives You The Whole Picture.

I Was Different, I Was Always Different. Why Didn't Anybody Notice Me?

When Yoko [ono] And I Got Married, We Got Terrible Racialist Letters - You Know, Warning Me That She Would Slit My Throat. Those Mainly Came From Army People Living In Aldershot. Officers.

We Were All On This Ship In The Sixties, Our Generation, A Ship Going To Discover The New World. And The Beatles Were In The Crow's Nest Of That Ship.

I Started Being Me About The Songs, Not Writing Objectively, But Subjectively. I Think It Was Dylan Who Helped Me Realize That - Not By Any Discussion Or Anything, But By Hearing His Work.