Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.

Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?

Somehow the revolutionaries must approach the workers because the workers won't approach them. But it's difficult to know where to start; we've all got a finger in the dam. The problem for me is that as I have become more real, I've grown away from most working-class people.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

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

I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried.