Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity.

I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.

Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.

Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!