"Avant-garde is French for bullshit..." - Quote by John Lennon

“Love is the Answer. What was the Question?”

“They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual artist or even as part of the Beatles has absolutely misunderstood everything I ever said if they can't see why I'm with Yoko. And if they can't see that, they don't see anything. They're just jacking off to - it could be anybody. Mick Jagger or somebody else. Let them go jack off to Mick Jagger, okay? I don't need it.”

“I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.”

“Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.”

“To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.”

“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”

“With all this extra stressinThe question I wonder is after death, after my last breathWhen will I finaly get to rest? Through this supressionthey punish the people that's askin questionsAnd those that possess, steal from the ones without possesionsThe message I stress: to make it stop study your lessonsDon't settle for less - even the genius asks-es questionsBe grateful for blessingsDon't ever change, keep your essenceThe power is in the people and politics we address.”

“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”

“Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters.”