It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko [Ono]. She's a… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status… — 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
I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I've been reading [Nikita] Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people walking around with long hair now and some trendy middle class kids in pretty clothes. But… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I believe Jesus was right, Buddha was right, and all of those people like that are right. They're all saying the same… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them. — 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