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.
Sean Lennon

For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.
Sean Lennon

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.
Sean Lennon

I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.
Sean Lennon

I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.
Sean Lennon

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.
Sean Lennon

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.
Sean Lennon

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.
Sean Lennon

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.
Sean Lennon

I like songs that go to different places and then come back.
Sean Lennon


I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.
Sean Lennon

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.
Sean Lennon

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.
Sean Lennon

I try not to do anything by formula.
Sean Lennon

I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.
Sean Lennon

I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best.
Sean Lennon

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.
Sean Lennon

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.
Sean Lennon

It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.
Sean Lennon

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.
Sean Lennon