When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career.

There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

Elvis died the day he went into the army.

Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.

That radicalism (of the '70s) was phony, really, because it was out of guilt. I'd always felt guilty that I made money, so I had to give it away or lose it. I don't mean I was a hypocrite. When I believe, I believe right down to the roots.

I'm a moldy moldy man I'm moldy thru and thru I'm a moldy moldy man You would not think it true I'm moldy til my eyeballs I'm moldy til my toe I will not dance I shyballs I'm such a humble Joe.