May Pang

“When John and I were together, and this is about a week or two before our relationship ended, I remember him saying, 'Do you think I should write with Paul again?' I said, 'Absolutely. You should because you want to. The two of you as solo performers are good, but together you can't be beaten.'”

“John just didn't understand his being the focus of all this attention.”

“I wanted to be cleared up about that Lost Weekend. I've heard enough of the myth. It was frustrating, but I let it go.”

“I think I have a right to write about John.”

“John was a very talented person who gave the world a lot of happiness through his music.”

“I don't have a relationship with Yoko. I've tried contacting her many times after John had died. She wouldn't return any of my phone calls.”

“Sometimes it would feel permanent, but he could be jerked back into Yoko's mind games very easily. Also, as our relationship began so strangely I suppose it would have had to end just as strange.”

“Many of what are now considered historic events, such as John and Paul McCartney's only jam session after The Beatles split up, weren't photographed. I'm surprised I captured as many moments as I did.”

“John smoked his French Gauloises and drank lots of strong coffee.”

“To think the first boyfriend that you lived with is John Lennon, it's hard to make that realization to someone.”

“A friend of mine kept saying, 'You tell all these stories about John, and when you do, you say, 'Wait a minute, I have a photo to go along with that!' How come we never see these photos in a book?' So, I thought maybe it's time to put them out. It would let people see John in that world, through my eyes.”

“I've been airbrushed out, as it were. You can imagine my frustration at being erased from history deliberately. I really don't know how Yoko can sleep at night knowing what she's done. But I can tell you I sleep very peacefully.”

“One day, we were going to the studio for John's recording session, and as we were leaving to get to the studio, in the elevator, all of a sudden, John leaned over and gave me a kiss. He said, 'I've been waiting to do this all day.' I said, 'What are you talking about?' What happened was, he'd liked me.”

“When I was with John it took me awhile to say, 'I'm in love with him.' I loved him as a person because I'd known him for three years. But as the person I'm living with who became my lover, it was really a slow move.”

“The likelihood of John having an affair with Brian Epstein is absurd, and actually impossible. Even when Phil Spector once tied up and threatened male sex against him, John was terrified.”

“I just get tired of the same rehashing of lies and myths.”

“Goldfish in Chinese restaurants are there to draw in the gold, the money.”

“If anybody had told me I was going to live outside of New York City, I would have thought they were out of their minds.”

“I know what I saw. And the rational explanation is... it was a UFO. There's UFOs over New York, as the song goes. And I saw another one in the early '80s, and I know other did people did too.”

“As unconventional as John was, he was also old-fashioned. Because of the nature of our relationship, John felt uneasy and never met my mum, which he later regretted. He would hide behind the door until she left.”