We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us.

I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.

Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.