John Lennon

We gave up everything just to sit at your table.

— John Lennon

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

— John Lennon

We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NEWTOPIA. Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of…

— John Lennon

If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse…

— John Lennon

I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian…

— John Lennon

Nothing is real.

— John Lennon

“People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine. . . . I always wondered, ``Why has nobody…

— John Lennon

It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life.... up until…

— John Lennon

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of…

— John Lennon

I cannot be what I am not.

— John Lennon

We all been playing those mind games forever Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil. Doing the mind guerrilla, Some call it…

— John Lennon

People always got the image I was an anti-Christ or antireligion. I'm not. I'm a most religious fellow. I was brought up…

— John Lennon

The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight. Because once they've got you…

— John Lennon

As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the…

— John Lennon

The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could…

— John Lennon

At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain.

— John Lennon

Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic…

— John Lennon

I still believe in peace, love, and understanding.

— John Lennon

I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have…

— John Lennon

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV

— John Lennon

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're…

— John Lennon

You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such…

— John Lennon

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, and if the sun don't come, we'll be standing in the English rain.

— John Lennon

I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.

— John Lennon

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

— John Lennon