What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once? — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“I was asked in an interview which was more important: money or love? I told the interviewer that if he had to… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“Love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in… — 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
There's nothing you can do that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung Nothing you can say but… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We all been playing those mind games forever Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil. Doing the mind guerrilla, Some call it… — 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
“But I can be alone without Yoko, but I just have no wish to be. There’s no reason on earth why I… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe Pools… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically - any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was 'all you need is love.' This year, it's… — 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