Lennon Quotes

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.

I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.

Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone.

With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.