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So – yeah, okay, I said it, alright? So what does it mean? Does it mean that that is the Bible, and I – and when I’m eighty, that’s what I mean? And now to reiterate yet again ‘cause I heard the program – you know, do they will they are they about the song ‘How Do You Sleep?’. And I’ll say once again— ‘How Do You Sleep?’ was my reaction to Paul’s [second] album. And the song that particularly offended not only me, but the others too – and maybe we were super paranoid at the time, but that’s irrelevant, it’s there in green and white – was ‘Too Many People’, and some various other remarks. Now whether he’s – he was expressing himself because whether we plan it to express our innermost feelings, or sort of surreal it like Dylan, or – Paul, you could say, his lyrics are very sort of… non-specific – if one knows the person, one knows what is coming down. You know, you can read what’s being said— YOKO: Between the lines. JOHN: Between the lines. Because people’s expressions and feelings come out in their work whether they want it to or not. So I always express myself directly, or [in the] language of the streets, and other people don’t. And that’s what it was all about. And I don’t go ‘round thinking, “how do you sleep?” the same as I don’t go, “imagine there’s no heaven,” you know. Because it’s 1973 now, and it’s a different world. And as you’ve probably heard, or people have read, Paul and I have communicated, Linda and Yoko have communicated. And another myth was that Linda and Yoko had all sorts of arguments going on in the early period, and they never had one. YOKO: No, never. JOHN: And they related to each other fairly well. And if anything the arguments are between the two males, you know, the machos. And that’s how it was, and as far as I’m concerned, it’s all over, and I hope not to go through that kind of trip again with anybody. For whatever reason. It’s just a waste of energy and time. There you go. And we’re fine! And if we could meet, it’d probably be finer, but the government’s making it inconvenient. MINTZ: So when you think of him now, you don’t think hostilely or negatively?  JOHN: No. I’m happy he’s doing well with his song, I think his album will do well, and – good luck to him, you know. I hope the James Bond theme’s well, and good luck to all of them, you know. Just – as long as I don’t have to be a part of it, then great! I wish them all well. Even, or including Mr. Klein. Good luck to him. I just wish to lead my own life. Yoko and I want to be happy. And whatever it takes – I mean, not over somebody’s dead body, as it were – but that’s the main concern, and that’s what it’s all about.