John Lennon

If you want to be a hero, well, just follow me.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

I'm not saying we're better or greater, or comparing us to Jesus Christ as a person, or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said 'more popular' and that's the fact.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother told me there was no Santa Claus, and Father had died just a few weeks before, and he'd always played Santa Claus. So I knew that I was not going to get a present from him anymore.

The worst thing you can do is to be a fake.

I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Avant-garde is French for bullshit.

We were all in a band, and that was it. We were like a gang.

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 here and now?

I'm an artist, and if you give me a tuba, I'll bring you something out of it.

The thing is, we're all part of the same thing. We're all part of God. We're all part of the universe. We're all part of everything.

The government is trying to make us all into robots. We don't want to be robots.

I don't believe in magic. I believe in everything else.

The whole thing about the Beatles was that we were all individuals, but we were a group.

It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out like an old rock star.

I don't mind if you don't like my music. I don't mind if you don't like me. But I do mind if you don't like peace.

Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a bigger boat.

I'm just a guy who writes songs.

I'm not a vegetarian. I'm a fruitarian. I eat fruit. I don't eat anything that has a face.

If you go to a psychiatrist, you're going to get a label. If you go to a guru, you're going to get a label. If you go to a priest, you're going to get a label. I don't want a label.