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
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. — 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
I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete… — 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
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
They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life. — 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
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
When you're in love, when somebody says something like, "How can you be with that woman?" you say, "What do you mean?… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink. — 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
Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me? — 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
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
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
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
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
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
The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up. — John Lennon Copy Share
In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days. — John Lennon Copy Share
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
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
The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked… — John Lennon Copy Share
