John Lennon

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

John Lennon

I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that – not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

John Lennon

I still believe in peace, love, and understanding.

John Lennon

I still believe that all you need is love.

John Lennon

I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ and therefore I shy away from church.

John Lennon

I think it’s false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.

John Lennon

I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever done. I think it’s realistic, and it’s true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music.

John Lennon

I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.

John Lennon

I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution – but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.

John Lennon

I thought of nothing else but rock ‘n’ roll; apart from sex and food and money–but that’s all the same thing, really.

John Lennon