John Lennon

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

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

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.

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.

I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

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

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

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

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.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

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.

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.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

All you need is love.

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.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.