Paul McCartney Quotes
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I don't work at being ordinary.
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I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.
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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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My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.
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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 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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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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When we were kids we always used to say, ‘Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.’ When John died, I thought, ‘Well, maybe we’ll get a message,’ because I know he knew the deal. I haven’t had a message from John.
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.
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This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.
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I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.
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All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
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The music publishing I own is fabulous recording.
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Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away. Oh, I believe in yesterday.
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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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One of things about beards is that, when men reach a certain age, they'd like to see if they can grow one. It's a phenomenon I understand very well. After you get over the itchy face, you go, "Oh, I don't have to shave, that's cool." And then you move into the philosophical thing- people say, "You look weird, you have a beard." And you say, "No, actually, it's weird to shave." Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.
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I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.
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I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .
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Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?
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People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about.
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It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.
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John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.