We don't have a particular organization, but we all want to make a world in which justice is given to each one of us.
My life was pretty rough.
If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.
This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.
Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.
What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.
I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.
In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.
Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'
Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us. Julian Assange took a courageous step by rightfully returning what belongs to the public domain. For that reason, I believe we need to stand behind him.
Luckily we never injected because both of us were totally scared about needles. So that probably saved us. And the other thing that saved us was our connection was not very good.
When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible
Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.
I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
