Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko [Ono]. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women.

I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.

You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.

Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed.

We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?

We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George [Harrison] and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did.