I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.

Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.

Every time I create something, just before that there's a kind of - you're feeling very low, you're feeling very down and insecure. Then you create and then it's fine. This is the way I observe me doing it.

I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting.

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.