Quotes from John Lennon

It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life.... up until then, it had been all glib and throwaway.

Life happens whilst you're planning other things.

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

Life is what happens when you make other plans.

Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar.

The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.

Always remember this: 'A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses'.

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.

People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream.

For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TVAnd you think you're so clever and classless and freeBut you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see.

It's weird not to be weird.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

We're more popular than Jesus now. I don't know which will go first—rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

The dream is over…I was the DreamweaverBut now I'm rebornI was the WalrusBut now I'm John.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.