I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?

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

I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.

Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, "turn on and drop out, man" - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.

When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers.

Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.