I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

Instant Karma is going to get you.

Tell the truth and make it rhyme

We were really professional by the time we got to the States; we had learned the whole game. When we arrived here we knew how to handle the press; the British press were the toughest in the world and we could handle anything. We were all right.

When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em.