THE WORD OF LENNON
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat"
"You know, it seems that my partings are always not as nice as I'd like them to be"
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see"
"I don't believe in the Beatles, that's all. I don't believe in the Beatles myth. There is no other way of saying it, is there? I don't believe in them, whatever they were supposed to be in everybody's head, including our own heads for a period. It was a dream. I don't believe in the dream anymore"
"You can't cheat kids. If you cheat them when they're children they'll make you pay when they're sixteen or seventeen by revolting against you or hating you or all those so-called teenage problems. I think that's finally when they're old enough to stand up to you and say, 'What a hypocrite you've been all this time. You've never given me what I really wanted, which is you"
"It's a big, wonderful world out there. And Yoko and I are going to explore it until we die"
"You see, I presumed that I would just be able to carry on and just bring Yoko into our life
[as Beatles], but it seemed that I had to either be married to them or Yoko,
and I chose Yoko, and I was right"
"If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim, and once you've learned-SWIM"
"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all togeather"
"I still believe in love, peace and understanding, as Elvis Costello said, and what's so funny about love, peace and understanding?"
"I don't intend to be a performing flea anymore. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40"
"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect
you can call me that.... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."
"Going back to the Beatles would be like going back to school.
I was never one for reunions. It's all over."
"Maybe in the Sixties we were naive and like children, and later everyone went back to their rooms and said, 'We didn't get a wonderful world of flowers and peace....The world is a nasty horrible place because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right? Crying for it wasn't enough. The thing the Sixties did was show us the possiblilty and the responsibilty we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility"