Quotes By John Lennon

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

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.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.