John Lennon
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.Collection: Inspirational
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.Collection: Inspirational
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right onesCollection: Inspirational
A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct itCollection: Inspirational
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.Collection: Inspirational
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.Collection: Inspirational
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.Collection: Love
You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.Collection: Inspirational
Life's what happens when you're making other plans.Collection: Background Noise
Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?Collection: Long
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.Collection: Love
Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.Collection: Dmt
Leave a space and something will fill it.Collection: Space
It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you loveCollection: Love
Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.Collection: Motivational
My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don't understand the assignment, I told her she doesn't understand life.Collection: Teacher
The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful, and so are you.Collection: Inspirational
Don't hate what you don't understand!Collection: Hate
The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.Collection: Government
The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.Collection: Music
I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.Collection: Understanding
I mean we [The Beatles] had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and all that. They were so condescending and stupid. Everybody trying to use us. It was a special humiliation for me because I could never keep my mouth shut and I'd always have to be drunk or pilled to counteract this pressure. It was really hell .Collection: Stupid
Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don't understand and are too old to grasp the feeling. Beatles are really the only people who can play Beatle music.Collection: Music
In Hamburg the waiters always had Preludin - and various other pills, but I remember Preludin because it was such a big trip - and they were all taking these pills to keep themselves awake, to work these incredible hours in this all-night place. And so the waiters, when they'd see the musicians falling over with tiredness or with drink, they'd give you the pill. You'd take the pill, you'd be talking, you'd sober up, you could work almost endlessly - until the pill wore off, then you'd have to have another.Collection: Fall
You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.Collection: Hurt
We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.Collection: Political
Instant Karma's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the headCollection: Karma
I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life - it's excruciating, you are forced to realise that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment.Collection: Religious
How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?Collection: Life
I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.Collection: Music
I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead.Collection: Care
I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.Collection: Believe
I don't stand back and judge - I do.Collection: Inspirational
Nobody loves you when you're down and out.Collection: Love You
If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture.Collection: Music
You can only breathe out if you breathe in.Collection: Breathe
They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.Collection: Education
Sometimes you wonder, I mean really wonder. I know we make our own reality, and we always have a choice, but how much is preordained? Is there always a fork in the road, and are there two preordained paths that are equally preordained? There could be hundreds of paths where one could go this way or that way -- there's a chance, and it's very strange sometimes.Collection: Inspirational
And So This Is Christmas; And What Have We Done? Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun; And So Happy Christmas; I Hope You Have Fun; The Near And The Dear Ones; The Old And The Young.Collection: Christmas
Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.Collection: Love
Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.Collection: Hippie
I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.Collection: Acceptance
No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Music
I don't believe in yesterday.Collection: Believe