May Pang

“I was born to Chinese immigrant parents, who came from Taiyuan.”

“Most people have come to know the time that John Lennon and I spent together as The Lost Weekend. I am always surprised by how many people are under the impression that our time together lasted only a single weekend.”

“When you hear something that's not correct, it really starts to irk someone.”

“John would drink, too, but he would stop. After a while, John would say, 'I've had enough, I don't want to be in the papers.'”

“John loved celebrity. We attended an American Film Institute dinner honoring James Cagney, and the room was filled with famous actors like Mae West, Kirk Douglas, John Wayne and Steve McQueen. John was like a kid in a candy store.”

“I understand it when the fans are looking at me. The Beatles, and John in particular, are their musical idols. You can't touch John, but you want to know more about him, and you want to know from a person who was close to him.”

“A friend of ours said, 'You think you're really going to have that much hair at 65?' I mean, John got insulted by that.”

“History is one thing that nobody can take away. No matter what anybody says or whose side you're on.”

“Everybody changes. With John things changed on a daily basis.”

“Although some people are under the impression that John and I spent our entire year-and-a-half together in L.A., we spent only about seven months there, from September 1973, with many long breaks back in New York.”

“I'm a big gadget queen.”

“I haven't spoken to Yoko since the mid-'70s.”

“People say, 'Oh God, you're name-dropping.' Well who else comes to your house when you're John Lennon? These were normal friends to him. McCartney, Jagger, they'd stop in and I'd order pizza or Mick's favorite beef curry from the local Chinese restaurant. We did normal things.”

“I had access to John like very few people had had.”

“I grew up with feng shui, but I never saw any jewelry that would give me the energy I needed and also looked good.”