I’m not saying we’re better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person, or God as a thing, or whatever it is. I just said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong. And now it’s all this.
Rituals are important.
I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.
We gave up everything just to sit at your table.
The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
We’d also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all.
In one way, I was always hip. I was hip in kindergarten. I was different from the others. There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things people didn’t see. I always saw things in a hallucinatory way.
I didn’t leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party’s over.
Today’s folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that’s not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.
I’m an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.
Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.
I was different, I was always different. Why didn’t anybody notice me?
The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.
It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult – even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.
I never listen to the radio. If it’s bad, I make fun of it, and if it’s good, I get jealous that I didn’t think of it.
When I was singing about ‘All You Need Is Love’ I was talking about something I hadn’t experienced.
What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?
I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution – but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.
Everything I’ve ever done is out. I don’t have boxes of unreleased stuff. There’s nothing in the files. I can never keep anything unless I don’t like the sound of it or it didn’t work. If I can sing it to an engineer, I can sing it to anyone...
Nothing will stop me, and whether I’m here or wherever I may be, I’ll always have the same feelings, I’ll say what I feel.