Paul McCartney Quotes
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All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
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I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.
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Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.
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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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I go back so far I'm in front of me.
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.
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What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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Most people don't know that I invented the selfie.
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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 think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.
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I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.
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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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It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.
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People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.
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When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
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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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Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue".
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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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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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My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.
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The music publishing I own is fabulous recording.
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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.