Quoted in The Beatles Anthology (John) ↑

I’m not going to get stuck with another set of people

I told Eric Clapton and Klaus [Voorman] that I was leaving and that I’d like to probably use them as a group. I hadn’t decided how to do it — to have a permanent new group or what? (Later on I thought, “Fuck, I’m not going to get stuck with another set of people, whoever they are.”)

John Lennon, as quoted in The Beatles Anthology