I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.
I'm not like John Lennon, who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon.
I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.
John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.
Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger.
The only good thing about America is that you killed John Lennon.
With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.
Imagine? Yeah I can imagine John Lennon being dead.
If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.
As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.
I am not John Lennon; I never will be!
I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.
John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.
The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had... his photocopier.
I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.
He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?
I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.
George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them
This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.
Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.
I only have one idol: John Lennon.
