John Lennon

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about 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 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

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.

War is over! If you want it. Happy Christmas John & Yoko.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations get wrong.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles were bastards.

I don't believe in magic. I believe in me. Yoko and me. And that's reality. The dream is over.

I don't believe in Beatles. I just believe in me.

I don't believe in Jesus. I don't believe in God. I don't believe in Kennedy. I don't believe in Buddha. I don't believe in mantra. I don't believe in Gita. I don't believe in yoga. I don't believe in kings. I don't believe in Elvis. I don't believe in Zimmerman. I don't believe in Beatles. I just believe in me, Yoko and me, and that's reality.

My role in society, or any artist's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

The thing is, I'm a born-again pagan.

I'm not a Beatle. I'm John Lennon.

You're just a rich kid with a guitar.

They're still buying the myth. The myth of the Beatles, the myth of the sixties.

I'm sick of all these people that say, 'Oh, I'm a revolutionary.' They're not. They're just trying to get laid.

I'm an artist, and if you're an artist, you're always trying to express yourself.

I'm not going to be a dead hero. I'm going to be a live hero.

I'm not saying that the Beatles were perfect. We were just four guys who made some good music.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, and we were all going to the same place. But we didn't know where it was.