Julian Lennon Quotes

It was a special thrill to meet, paint, and hang out with Ringo Starr.

Any time you get to see Paul McCartney, it is pretty special.

What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.

I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover.

I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

I am myself a fabulous fake.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I would love to just talk to Paul McCartney. That would be incredible, but that is definitely like a dream.

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

The Beatles have always had a big effect on me.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

I ain't no icon. It's people like Patti LaBelle, somebody like that's an icon. I'm just Missy. I'm just crazy, that's all.

I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

There's no way to play it cool when you meet Paul McCartney. You just start sweating; you trip over your words. Everyone kind of reverts back to being a 10-year-old girl. You can't help it. He's one of the only people on planet Earth that everyone knows who he is. Everyone.

Paul McCartney has always been the love of my life.

I got to see The Beatles a couple of times. In fact, I saw their last performance ever in San Francisco. The Beatles were massive to me - I learned so much from them.

I'm never quite sure if I'm me when I'm dressed up.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the certainty of borders gives way. We are more subject to invasions, less able to mobilize defenses, less sure of who we really are, even as we may be perceived by others as a person of character. The dislocation of self from center to indefinite edge merges us more with the world, so that we can feel blest by everything.

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.