Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

I don't stand back and judge - I do.

Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.