"I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you."
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"It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another."
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"Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about."
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"I believe that God is like a powerhouse, like where you keep electricity, like a power station. And that he's a supreme power, and that he's neither good not bad, left, right, black or white. He just is. And we tap that source of power and make of it what we will. Just as electricity can kill people in a chair, or you can light a room with it. I think God is."
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"God is a concept by which we measure our pain. I'll say it again. God is a concept by which we measure our pain."
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"Nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be It's easy"
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"Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society."
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"If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again."
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"Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either."
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"When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind."
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"When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make a statement. We sat in bed and talked to reporters for seven days. It was hilarious. In effect, we were doing a commercial for peace on the front page of the papers instead of a commercial for war."
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"Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap."
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"What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that."
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"People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom."
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"The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ... It was just something you could never do."
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"There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn."
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"I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really."
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"I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is."
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"In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around."
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"As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game."
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