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.

People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.

We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.

Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them

The first line (of I Am The Walrus) was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko.

I don't know if I want to record together again. I go off and on it... In the old days, when we needed an album, Paul and I got together and produced enough songs for it. Nowadays, there's three of us writing prolifically and trying to fit it all into one album.

Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis there would be no Beatles.