Paul McCartney Quotes
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.
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When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.
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John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.
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I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and would want peace.
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People would say to me, “Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney”, and I'd say: “I wish I had his money!”
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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.
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I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.
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I'm not a great practiser at all. We were never great practisers. The Beatles would come together for about a day before we had a tour, to make sure the amp worked.
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So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.
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I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.
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For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.
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I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.
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I wasn't really dead.
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One of my great memories of John is from when we were having some argument. I was disagreeing and we were calling each other names. We let it settle for a second and then he lowered his glasses and he said: "It's only me." And then he put his glasses back on again. To me, that was John. Those were the moments when I actually saw him without the facade, the armor, which I loved as well, like anyone else. It was a beautiful suit of armor. But it was wonderful when he let the visor down and you'd just see the John Lennon that he was frightened to reveal to the world.
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George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
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There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.