Paul McCartney and Wings Quotes
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As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.
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I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.
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If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
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I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.
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I've always hated religion. It's the most guilt-ridden, horrible thing. 'My God is better than yours, and I'm going to fight you and kill you because of your religion.' I think it's just a sick idea. You know how people are color-blind when it comes to other people - I mean, hopefully they are. Well, I'm religious-blind.
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It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.
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Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.
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I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.
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Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.
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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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It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.
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All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
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I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.
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We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.
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I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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I go back so far I'm in front of me.
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I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.
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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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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.