I'm under complete understanding now of what happened,
and it's very clear and very rational.
It is my sincere belief that I killed John Lennon
to get as many people as possible to read The Catcher in the Rye.
All of my efforts will now be devoted toward this goal.
Here's what I say about John Lennon.
"All you need is love." Have you ever heard that?
Well, this is what I say to that:
All you need is love and $250 million.
He was the biggest, phoniest bastard that ever lived.
I wasn't about to let the world endure ten more years
of his menagerie of bullshit.
I'm sitting in front of the radio,
listening to rock music,
and I just felt the Holy Spirit talk to my heart.
And I knew that evening, you know, the Lord wanted me to plead guilty.
But I didn't want to. I wanted to go ahead with it.