Paul McCartney Quotes
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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 anyone had told me in the '60s that 20 years later we'd still be talking about whether pot was worse than this or that, I'd have said, Oh, come off it, boys.
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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.
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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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It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?
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I would have liked the Beatles never to have broken up. I wanted to get us back on the road doing small places, then move up to our previous form and then go and play. Just make music, and whatever else there was would be secondary.
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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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Every love song I write is for Linda.
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Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.
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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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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?
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All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.
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Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.
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I think the French girls are fabulous.
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One may not eat what has a face.
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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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To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't look very seemly!.
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I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.
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I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.