Quotes by Donovan

I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.

I sounded like Bob Dylan for about five minutes, and it was blown out of all proportion.

I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in 1966, but in 1963 and 1964, I was absorbing enormous amounts of music, from baroque to jazz to blues to Indian music.

The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways.

I've been vegetarian for many years and only eat fish if I have to.

In 1968, I bought a 114-foot yacht, built in 1946, and lived on the Greek islands for a while. We had an extraordinary time in it. Then I gave it to The Beatles.

The audiences used to say, 'Are you a Donovan fan or a Dylan fan?' It was all very naive, really.

Sometimes the songs just come to me. I don't sit down to write like you'd sit down to make a pair of boots.

The idea of the mystic solo, meditating away on his own, is only one path of yoga. Very early on, I chose the path of Life. One path is austerity and isolation, the other is Life. But they both lead to the same place.

I wasn't trying to sound like anybody else. Basically, I was just experimenting all over the place.