• Interviewer: I think you've got to accept, John and Yoko, that, particularly you, John ... That it's alienated you from the people who originally loved you in this country. A lot of them. They don't understand you anymore.
• John Lennon: The alienation started was when I met Yoko. And people do not seem to like people getting a divorce. It's all right to do it quietly, but we can't do it quietly. So everyone has this impression that John's gone crazy. But all I did was fall in love, like a lot of people do, who are already married, who married somebody very young. We're not superhuman and we really get hurt by abuse. We don't mind criticism of our work at all. But the British Press actually called Yoko ugly in the papers. I've never seen that about any woman or man! Even if it was that the person is ugly. You don't normally say it in the paper. "That ugly woman." And she's not ugly. And if she was, you wouldn't be so mean. They even say "attractive" about the most awful-Iooking people, just to be kind. That's the kind of treatment we were getting at that time and it really hurt us