One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were, and that’s what I resent. I didn’t know, I didn’t foresee. It happened bit by bit, gradually, until this complete craziness is surrounding you, and you’re doing exactly what you don’t want to do with people you can’t stand – the people you hated when you were ten. John Lennon
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth. John Lennon
We’re more popular than Jesus Christ now. John Lennon
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. John Lennon
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry. John Lennon
The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being’s mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it’s too hard. John Lennon
Life is what happens while you are making other plans. John Lennon
Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip. John Lennon
Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity. John Lennon
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more. John Lennon
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship. John Lennon
Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity. John Lennon
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. John Lennon