I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.


The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono (ed. Putnam Pub Group, 1981)

John Lennon Quotes

I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, Nowhere Man came,...

I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, Nowhere Man came,...

I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, Nowhere Man came,...

I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, Nowhere Man came,...