Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
— Yoko Ono
Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
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.
One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!
The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.
Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
Having a son is not all pleasure.
People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.
When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.
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.
If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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.
I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it did not ruin my health. And the reason is because I just did not answer them. I had my own life.
My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
I never thought I would go into the dance charts.
I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?
All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.
In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.
My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.
My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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.
Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.
Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy 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.
It's a waste to not say anything with art.
Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.
I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
I respect Lady Gaga very much.
I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.
There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'
You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it.
After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'
