[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time.
John LennonThe only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'
John LennonIt's no good having, being with people you can dominate all the time. Or being with someone who can dominate you all the time. Because either one is boring.
John LennonWhen you wake up and your heart is going like the clappers or your back feels strained, or you develop some other hang-up, you should let your mind go to the pain and the pain itself will regurgitate the memory which originally caused you to suppress it in your body. In this way the pain goes to the right channel instead of being repressed again, as it is if you take a pill or a bath, saying 'Well, I'll get over it'. Most people channel their pain into God or masturbation or some dream of making it.
John LennonGoing to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.
John Lennon