"Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of..." - Quote by John Lennon

“I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.”

“There's nothing you can do that can't be done, Nothing you can sing that can't be sung, Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game, It's easy...All you need is love.”

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

“When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.”

“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”

“I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.”

“Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.”

“love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.”

“The freedom of poetic license.”