Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.

I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that.

It takes time to get rid of all this garbage that I've been carrying around that was influencing the way I thought and the way I lived. It had a lot to do with Yoko showing me that I was still possessed. I left physically when I fell in love with Yoko, but mentally it took the last ten years of struggling. I learned everything from her. ... It is a teacher-pupil relationship.

You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.