Mark David Chapman Quotations

Once you take a life, that's it. I don't even deserve to be here.

I willingly took John Lennon's life. What I did was despicable.

Mr. Lennon would want me free, and I'd like to clear that up.

It's a horrible thing to realize what you've done.

I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover.

I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it.

I wanted to be videotaped.

I just shot John Lennon.

I don't know how easy that would be but I'd try just to lead an ordinary life again. Stay out of the papers.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did.

I just sought a way to be someone I wasn't. To be loved.

I was a master at keeping my feelings in.

I really didn't mean to hurt anybody. I liked John Lennon.

I wasn't angry the night I shot him.

It is good to be skeptical, to ask “is this really true?,” to take nothing at face value. It is not good to blind yourself to what you can see is true, useful, or beautiful because you are afraid to trust.

There are not many places to go once you've killed someone like John Lennon.

I'm sure the large part of me is Holden Caulfield, who is the main person in the book. The small part of me must be the Devil.

I remember thinking, "The bullets are working" I think I felt a little regret that they were working.