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" Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me. "

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" I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him. "

" If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional. "

" 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.' "

" People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop. "

" The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper. "

" Artists are going to be the metronome of this society. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh. "

" Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous. "

" Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions. "

" I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy. "

" Healing yourself is connected with healing others. "

" 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. "

" Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed. "

" You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them. "

" It's a waste to not say anything with art. "

" Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. "

" We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that. "

" 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 I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition. "

" Mothers are not supposed to give guidance. "

" When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back. "

" 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. "

" What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect. "

" Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half. "

" The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk. "

" In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know? "

" When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it? "

" I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it. "