Imagine

“Imagine two cars of the same make heading towards each other and they’re gonna crash, head-on. Well, it’s like one of those scenes from a film – they’re doing 100 miles an hour, they both slam their breaks on and there’s smoke everywhere on the floor and they stop just in the nick of time with their bumper almost touching but not quite. That’s what it was like from the first time I got to know her. Yoko and I were on the same wavelength right from the start, from the first night. I had to drop everything. I had no doubt I’d met “The One”.

I always had this dream of meeting an artist woman I would fall in love with. Even from art school. And when we met and were talking I just realized that she knew everything I knew. And more, probably. And it was coming out of a woman’s head. It just sort of bowled me over. It was like finding gold or something. To have exactly the same relationship with any male you’d ever had, but could go to bed with it, and it could stroke your head when you feel tired or sick or depressed. Could also be Mother. And all of the intellect is there; well, it’s just like winning the pools. So that’s why when people ask me for a precis of my story, I put, ‘Born, lived, met Yoko.’ ” – John Lennon