Mark David Chapman Quotes & Sayings

It's a horrible thing to realize what you've done. — Mark David Chapman

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

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. — Mark David Chapman

I was a master at keeping my feelings in. — Mark David Chapman

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

I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it. — Mark David Chapman

I wasn't angry the night I shot him. — Mark David Chapman

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

I wanted to be videotaped. — Mark David Chapman

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

I really didn't mean to hurt anybody. I liked John Lennon. — Mark David Chapman

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. — Mark David Chapman

I willingly took John Lennon's life. What I did was despicable. — Mark David Chapman

I just sought a way to be someone I wasn't. To be loved. — Mark David Chapman

I just shot John Lennon. — Mark David Chapman

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. — Mark David Chapman

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. — Mark David Chapman