Happiness is inside you, not with another person

I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.

In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.

I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it.

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.

I believe time wounds all heels.