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"I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself."
"Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart."
"People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop."
"I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit."
"Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer."
"Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me."
"John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future."
"You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them."
"No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles."
"I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it."
"I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way."
"True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely."
"Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know."
"I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother."
"In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication."
"Real success is doing things right every day by not forgetting to express love to your friends."
"I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'"
"I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much."
"I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world."
"Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements."