Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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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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If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.
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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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We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.
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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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Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.
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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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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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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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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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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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Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.
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My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
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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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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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It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.
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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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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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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.
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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.
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I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn't realize I'd taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was. It didn't do anything for me, which was lucky because I wouldn't have fancied heading down that road.
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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.