Sean Lennon Quotes

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

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

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

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

The one thing I do find about serious reviews is that usually they tend to have a point, and that's what I find hurt so much about discerning critics. If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level.

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 have a specific set of, I have a specific sort of negative energies to deal with that might be specific to me, but it definitely something that all artists have to deal with at one point or another. But I think for me, it's just maybe more specific.

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

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.

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.

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

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

My tendency is to be very experimental.

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

I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature.

Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.

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.

The most important thing in art is taste.

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

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

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

Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't really believe that he was a political artist. I think some of his songs were political, and I think they were incredible because he was able to make art that was political and that wasn't pedantic. But I think he was unique in being able to do that.

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

I wouldn't even say "Imagine" is political. I think it's more just sort of declaration of humanity. I don't find his political songs to be the ones that I go home and listen to. And I would say that of any artist. They're not the ones that interest.

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