I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.

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.

My original idea for the cover was better - decapitate Paul - but he wouldn't go along with it.

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.

We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NEWTOPIA. Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NEWTOPIA. NEWTOPIA has no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people. NEWTOPIA has no laws other than cosmic. All people of NEWTOPIA are ambassadors of the country. As two ambassadors of NEWTOPIA, we ask for diplomatic immunity and recognition in the United Nations of our country and our people.