Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.
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The long and winding road that leads to your door Will never disappear, I've seen that road before it always leads me here, Leads me to your door.
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You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'
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I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.
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My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.
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If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.
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I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.
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And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be...
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back.
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I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life."
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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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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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.
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I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.
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It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.
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When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!
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One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
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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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At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.