London, Jan 3 : Cee Lo Green has said that his decision to change the lyrics of John Lennon's `Imagine', during a live New Year's Eve TV performance, had "meant no disrespect" to the Beatles legend.

The Crazy hitmaker received a barrage of criticism on Twitter. com after he sang "And all religion's true" in place of the track's original line "And no religion too".

However, the 37-year-old rapper later took to the microblogging website to defend the controversial lyric change.

"Yo I meant no disrespect by changing the lyric guys! I was trying to say a world were u could believe what u wanted that's all," Contactmusic quoted Green as writing in a twitter post.

Green was performing the track on NBC network's New Year's Eve with Carson Daly live from `Times Square' in New York when he changed the words. (ANI)