The more natural, the better.
I love basketball.
I wanna sing about something that’s sexy and edgy.
I have so much to talk about. I have so much to share. There are so many different emotions going on inside of me right now.
Nothing can stop me from loving my brother.
I’ll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.
I think it’s really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what’s going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that’s the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself.
The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.
I’d never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn’t meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.
There is power in forgiveness.
There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and all achievement.
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
I like to surprise myself.
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect.
You’ve got to teach youngsters the difference between right and wrong, but you shouldn’t try to poke it down their throats. Let them ask the questions and then give them the answers.
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?
