"We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems."
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"The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much as the public and we were in love with them just the same way. But we were four individuals who eventually recovered our individualities after being submerged in a myth."
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"[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time."
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"I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol."
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"When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it."
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"You can only breathe out if you breathe in."
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"I don't stand back and judge - I do."
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"Leave a space and something will fill it."
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"I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that."
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"If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture."
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"I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead."
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"I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life - it's excruciating, you are forced to realise that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment."
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"How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?"
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"I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it."
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"We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting."
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"In Hamburg the waiters always had Preludin - and various other pills, but I remember Preludin because it was such a big trip - and they were all taking these pills to keep themselves awake, to work these incredible hours in this all-night place. And so the waiters, when they'd see the musicians falling over with tiredness or with drink, they'd give you the pill. You'd take the pill, you'd be talking, you'd sober up, you could work almost endlessly - until the pill wore off, then you'd have to have another."
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"What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?"
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"The whole Beatle thing was just beyond comprehension. When 'Help' came out, I was actually crying out for help. Most people think it's just a fast rock 'n roll song. I didn't realize it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie. But later, I knew I really was crying out for help."
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"Yoko [Ono] was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the art world is completely dominated by men - so she was full of revolutionary zeal when we met."
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"At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.'"
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