Sean Lennon Quotes
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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.
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I'm always surprised that people make such a fuss about Italian tailoring and French design houses. I think traditional British tailoring for men is so good. Everything's the right cut, the fabrics are good.
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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.
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I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.
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What I hate is when you're wearing something and you feel it on your body. I hate that.
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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…
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If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level.
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I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.
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I don't like when people dress intentionally ugly. Personally that's not my thing.
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I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it's true.
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For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.
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I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.
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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.
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It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.
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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.
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The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.
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When I was 15, a cabdriver asked me if I was Paul McCartney's daughter.
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I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.
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Wonder Woman was my first love, and now she’s Charlotte Kemp Muhl my last.
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The idea of using media for expressing yourself artistically is kind of something I learned from my mother and my father. So for me, I think growing up wanting to be an artist, I always imagined myself sort of crossing over or mixing media and so it was a natural evolution for me to try to express in a filmic way or in a visual way. It just kind of seems like a natural sort of progression for me in terms of what I'm trying to do as an artist.
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It would be nice if I was remembered at all. I don't really care about being remembered. I just want to enjoy my life today and do my best while I'm here. I'm not that ambitious, other than to have a good life now.
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My favourite men's clothes are like Victorian British clothing.
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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.
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I try not to do anything by formula.