I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me.

You see, we're influenced by whatever's going. Even if we're not influenced, we're all going that way at a certain time. If we played a Stones record now -​ and a Beatles record -​ and we've been way apart,​ you'd find a lot of similarities. We're all heavy. Just heavy.

News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

Nothing is real.

We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win.

The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much as the public and we were in love with them just the same way. But we were four individuals who eventually recovered our individualities after being submerged in a myth.