John Lennon

I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.

John Lennon

I never listen to the radio. If it’s bad, I make fun of it, and if it’s good, I get jealous that I didn’t think of it.

John Lennon

I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me.

John Lennon

I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono. Paul and me were the Beatles.

John Lennon

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

John Lennon

I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we’d done it in England, there’s no reason why we couldn’t do it in America too.

John Lennon

I really thought that love would save us all.

John Lennon

I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it’s fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you’re left with great precision.

John Lennon

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it’s happening.

John Lennon

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.

John Lennon