Make love not war – John and Yoko: March 1969

JOHN LENNON: Bed peace is we're going to stay in bed for seven days sort of instead of having a private honeymoon. It's a private protest.

YOKO ONO: For the violence that's going in the world, you see.

JOHN LENNON: To say ...

YOKO ONO: Be sure that instead of making war it's better to just stay, let's stay in bed for the spring.

JOHN LENNON: And grow your hair. (Yes) For peace, let it grow till peace comes, you know.

INTERVIEWER: So this is part of your honeymoon?

JOHN LENNON: Yes.

YOKO ONO: Yes, yes.

INTERVIEWER: How are you enjoying married life?

JOHN LENNON: It's beautiful, you know, it's beautiful.

INTERVIEWER: Some of the things people have said about you haven't been very kind ... (No, no) ... lately. (No) Does this get you down?

JOHN LENNON: Well, it's so much that it got past being depressing. It's got into a joke again, you know. It was a bit depressing the way they kept picking on Yoko, you know, and saying she was ugly and all personal things like that, but I know she isn't, so ...

INTERVIEWER: You don't feel you're being hounded?

JOHN LENNON: No, no. I mean 'cos, well, we, the amount of hounding we get, we're going to turn it into ...

YOKO ONO: Into something good, you know.

JOHN LENNON: ...what we think is good use of it. If we're going to be hounded, we may as well say what we have to say about peace and things.

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