We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence. Not just war - all forms of violence.

Life happens whilst you're planning other things.

You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?

Life is what's going on while your making other plans.

I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.

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.

Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.