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

Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.

People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.

Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.

Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.