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

I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono. Paul and me were the Beatles.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

The Beatles is over, but John, Paul, George, and Ringo...God knows what relationship they'll have in the future. I don't know. I still love those guys! Because they'll always be those people who were that part of my life.

Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

I really thought that love would save us all.