Sean Lennon Quotes

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

The most important thing in art is taste.

My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connection

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music.

Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.

Wonder Woman was my first love, and now she’s [Charlotte Kemp Muhl) my last.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Now Daddy is part of God. I guess when you die you become much more bigger, because you're part of everything.

For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist

They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.

I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best

The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

I try not to do anything by formula.

I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art - it's a fun group activity.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

I like songs that go to different places and then come back.

What I hate is when you're wearing something and you feel it on your body. I hate that.

I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it's true.

You can't just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing.

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

My tendency is to be very experimental.

I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.

My favourite men's clothes are like Victorian British clothing.

When I was 15, a cabdriver asked me if I was Paul McCartney's daughter.

If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level.

If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.

I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.

I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs.

I don't like when people dress intentionally ugly. Personally that's not my thing.

I've always been cool, basically. I was cool in utero.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.