I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.

I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.

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.

People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.

The magic of the music seems to light the way.

The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.

I know I hurt you then But that was way back when.