If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

- John Lennon

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

- John Lennon

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

- John Lennon

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

- John Lennon

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

- John Lennon

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.

- John Lennon

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

- John Lennon

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

- John Lennon

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?

- John Lennon

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

- John Lennon

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.

- John Lennon

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

- John Lennon

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

- John Lennon

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

- John Lennon

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

- John Lennon

I believe time wounds all heels.

- John Lennon

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 the here and now?

- John Lennon

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

- John Lennon

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.

- John Lennon

My role in society, or any artist's or poet'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.

- John Lennon