Sean Lennon
Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.Collection: Famous
The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.Collection: Peace
There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.Collection: Failure
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.
I like music because it's the only invisible art form.
I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.
My tendency is to be very experimental.
I try not to do anything by formula.
Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.
The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.
I like songs that go to different places and then come back.
For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.
There's no single movement out there. It's not like in the '60s, when Revolver came out and that's just it for the next year.
I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.
It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.
Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity.
I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.
I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.
I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.
I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.
I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.
I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.
Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.
I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best.
I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.
We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.
My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connectionCollection: Father
I think when people try to use their art for political views, I think they're art becomes smaller, less interesting. And so for me, as an artist, I'm trying to speak about things in a universal way and not be pedantic or small-minded and try to convince other people of my political views. But having said that, every day I live in sort of complete terror because of what I read in the newspaper and what is going on in the world. I'm constantly, as I think many of us are, overwhelmed by the sort of, mass psychosis that's occurring.Collection: Art
My dad, he's definitely one of greatest writers of his generation. There is no question about it. When you are that good, when work is that good, you have to appreciate every aspect of it. It's the architecture of it, it's like looking at a Frank Lloyd Wright building or a Lautner building, it's master craftsmanship. Every aspect of it intertwines in a perfectly harmonious way. That's what architecture is at its best and the architecture of my father's music is on that level.Collection: Dad
Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.Collection: Father
I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music.Collection: Father
Wonder Woman was my first love, and now she’s [Charlotte Kemp Muhl) my last.Collection: First Love
They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.Collection: Art
Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artistCollection: Mean
Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.Collection: Dirty
For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.Collection: Music
When I was 15, a cabdriver asked me if I was Paul McCartney's daughter.Collection: Daughter
Now Daddy is part of God. I guess when you die you become much more bigger, because you're part of everything.Collection: Daddy
I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my bestCollection: Everything Happens For A Reason
Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't really believe that he was a political artist. I think some of his songs were political, and I think they were incredible because he was able to make art that was political and that wasn't pedantic. But I think he was unique in being able to do that.Collection: Song
I wouldn't say the purpose of making art is to enjoy it necessarily. For me, it happens to be the thing I enjoy the most. I don't even know what the purpose of art is really, I just know that is something that makes me feel satisfied in a way that other things don't. That's all I know, that's why I like to write songs and films or draw. I just like to make things and somehow I find it gives me a feeling of satisfaction that I can't find in other areas of my life.Collection: Song
I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it's true.Collection: Hate
I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature.Collection: Christian
If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.Collection: People
You can't just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing.Collection: Attention
I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention.Collection: Father
I wouldn't even say "Imagine" is political. I think it's…more just sort of declaration of humanity. I don't find his political songs to be the ones that I go home and listen to. And I would say that of any artist. They're not the ones that interest…Collection: Song