"Being honest may not get you many friends, but it'll always get you the right ones."

"Yoko is part of me now. We're John and Yoko, we're together."

"We were all on this ship in the '60s, a yellow submarine. And we were all trying to find a way out."

"My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother."

"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."