976 Quotes by John Lennon

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time.

I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian grow up, and now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes. No matter what artistic gains I get, or gold records, if I can't make a success out of my relationship with the people I love, then everything else is bullsh*t.

You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.

Rituals are important.

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

It's always in the middle of the bloody night, or when you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them.

Love is needing to be loved.

Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.