Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them — John Lennon Copy Share Image
"All you need is love." I believe it. It's damn hard, but I absolutely believe it. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
When I was 5 years old my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
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;… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Sometimes you wonder, I mean really wonder. I know we make our own reality, and we always have a choice, but how… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“They made us believe that each one of us is the half of an orange, and that life only makes sense when… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let… — John Lennon Copy Share Image