Paul McCartney Quotes
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I tend not to say much on the phone now. If I leave a message, it's benign. You edit yourself according to the new circumstances of the new world. I think it would be quite good to get some sort of laws.
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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transportation if it's convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn.
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I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.
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You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.
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I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.
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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.
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I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.
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I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.
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I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.
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When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
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I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
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Most people don't know that I invented the selfie.
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Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.
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My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.
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I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.
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It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.
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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.
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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.