I've created the life I wanted.

I've never been big on sports coats and pants. I'm a suit guy. It makes it clear who's in charge.

I'm a Levi's guy.

I do one thing - I don't do it on purpose - but I always make other guys look underdressed.

One time, I was going to be in L.A. for 10 days for a business conference, and I took eight different pairs of sandals.

I've been saying to people for a long time, 'If you're not doing something you're tremendously excited about, and you're not feeling passionate about it, you're compromising yourself every day.'

The people who care the most about the folks in your community are living in the community. They don't live in Washington, D.C.

Salespeople are the most important people in any organization. Until a salesperson gets an order, nobody in the company has a job.

I've never considered selling anything other than profession, but it's more than that. It's one of the highest callings that you can aspire to. Not everyone can do it.

Business school professors don't take selling seriously because they don't know how to sell. It's easy to talk about business theory and production time and just-in-time development. Selling is much more difficult.

I was blessed to have the guys at Bear Stearns as mentors. They taught me a lot, but most of all, they taught me that there's nothing wrong with selling if you're selling the right product to the right person.

I grew up without a father.

Everybody got a dream. What's the plan?

Don't ever be afraid to hire people that are smarter than you. Just because they are smarter than you doesn't mean they have to make more money.

A father is everything in the world.

Passion is the thing that won't let you sleep at night because you want to get up in the morning and go do your thing.

If you're passionate about something, you can develop the abilities.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.

If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.

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.

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

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.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

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.

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.

So many people have approached me and said, 'Can I do a musical of John,' ... It's a very simple idea, you know - wow, a musical of John! But I've said no. This time, I said yes, because I liked the idea of having these different actors playing John. Because in the years after John's passing, John has transformed into something else. People in Asia think of him as their hero. People in Africa think of him as their hero. He was a hero for the whole world, and not just a white hero. So it's great to have a black performer singing as John. For me, this play is a revolution, a quiet revolution.

People always portrayed us as enemies, like two boxers on opposite sides of the ring, but of course it was never really like that,

At this time I think it's important that we remember John for what he contributed to the world. For people who still love John's music and for those now getting into John's music, this opens up a whole new world in which they can appreciate John's music again.

I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity -- a function. We don't need history.

Peace is here now. It's just that we don't recognize it. Let's say that 98 percent of people in the world are wanting peace. Now people say, even people from Siberia? Yes. We want world peace. The two percent is really tying to mess it up. It's so sad in a way, because by messing it up what are they going to get? Their children are going to suffer, their grandchildren are going to suffer, and they might even die before something gets good.

Some people are saying there's going to be a third World War. I hope not. I really think this is a time that people can start to mend things by negotiations, dealings. We know about dealings, don't we? We have brilliant lawyers. Why don't we have brilliant lawyers standing up and working for peace?

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

Some people get medals and awards and all that, and maybe not intentionally - maybe the world is making them do it - but they sort of just follow what they were doing. Repeat or follow what they were doing all their lives, in their style of music or whatever. In my case, I always try to start from scratch. It's very nerve-wracking actually, but it's interesting.

I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

I want to incite people to loosen their oppression by giving them something to work with, to build on. They shouldn't be frightened of creating themselves - that's why I make things very open, with things for people to do.

The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves.

Some people don't listen to my music because they say that I am an artist. And some don't want to go to my gallery shows, because they say I am a musician.

We are very lucky really, because we can create our own reality, John [Lennon] and me, but we know the important thing is to communicate with other people.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.