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You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

Song lyric - from 'Imagine'

This is ex-Beatle, John Lennon. I've been wanting to write you, but I guess I didn't really want to face reality. I never do this, this is why I take drugs. Reality frightens me and paranoids me. True, I have a lot of money... but basically, I'm afraid to face the problems of life. Let me begin to say, I regret that I said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. I don't even like myself anymore - guilt. My Cousin, Marilyn McCabe has tried to help me. She told me you were praying for me. I want happiness. I don't want to keep up with drugs... Explain to me what Christianity can do for me. Is it phoney? Can He love me? I want out of Hell. I am, I hate to say, under the influence of pills now. I can't stop. I only wish I could thank you for caring.

This is described as a rambling, handwritten note signed "John Lennon" actually written by his cousin Marilyn McCabe to Oral Roberts in the early 1970s, as quoted in Oral Roberts : An American Life‎ - 1985 by David Edwin Harrell, p. 310. It was later published in full as if it were actually written by Lennon in How to be a Successful Teenager - 1994 by Rick Jones, Ch. 5 : The Secret About Material Things, p. 54.

There's only one person in the United States we ever wanted to meet ... not that he wanted us. And we met him last night. We can't tell you how we felt. We just idolised him so much. ... You can't imagine what a thrill that was last night. Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

Statement - 28 August 1965, after meeting Elvis Presley, as quoted in The Leading Men of MGM - 2005 by Jane Ellen Wayne. Also partly quoted in The Beatles : The Authorized Biography - 1968 by Hunter Davies.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Double Fantasy - 1980

Music

For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. The people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, just rattle your jewelry.

Royal Variety Performance in London - 4 November 1963, attended by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret. John had intended to say "fucking jewelry", but was persuaded against doing so by Paul McCartney and the group's manager Brian Epstein.