“Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there hadn’t been an Elvis, there wouldn’t have been the Beatles.”
John Lennon

“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.”
John Lennon

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
John Lennon

“The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.”
John Lennon

“Because I was never really wanted. The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was ‘normal’.”
John Lennon

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
John Lennon

“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”
John Lennon

“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?”
John Lennon

“I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.”
John Lennon

“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
John Lennon

“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.”
John Lennon

“Everything is clearer when you’re in love.”
John Lennon

“All we are saying is give peace a chance.”
John Lennon

“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
John Lennon

“Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.”
John Lennon

“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.”
John Lennon

“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.”
John Lennon

“Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.”
John Lennon

“When you’re thirty-five, you can’t take as much booze … and I always got a little violent on drink…So it was kind of a self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it…”
John Lennon

“I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car, and into another.”
John Lennon

“I don’t believe in killing, whatever the reason.”
John Lennon

“The older generation are leading this country to galloping ruin.”
John Lennon

“Your way of life is a political statement.”
John Lennon

“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
John Lennon

“It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what color my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.”
John Lennon

“The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.”
John Lennon