John Lennon — "All you need is love."

"I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field …"

"I've got a right to be moody."

"We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting."

"I don't like to be told what to do. I like to do what I want to do."

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn'…"