As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.
My first exposure to the vocabulary of inter-beingness was through the writings of Thich Nhat Hahn, to whom I remain enormously grateful.
My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.
My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.
When people ask me who I'd want to have dinner with, dead or alive, I always say, 'John Lennon.' I just feel that he was an artist who was, in his own way, committed to wholeness and authenticity in a not dissimilar way that I am years later.
I only have one idol: John Lennon.
I think about John Lennon all the time. What would John Lennon do? What would John Lennon say if he got this part? How would he act? I don't know, but he's my moral barometer.
