If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!

I still don't know how to express the really delicate personal stuff. People think that Plastic Ono is very personal, but there are some subtleties of emotions which I cannot seem to express in pop music, and it frustrates me. Maybe that's why I still search for other ways of expressing myself. Song writing is a limiting experience in some ways - writing down words that have to rhyme.

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

When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced.

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

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it