Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap.

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.

I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision.

When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.

Whatever gets you through the night

Strawberry fields forever

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.