Paul McCartney and Wings Quotes
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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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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 been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.
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He is a terrible planner, though. So am I.
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We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.
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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.
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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 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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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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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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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.
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As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.
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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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If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.
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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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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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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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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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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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Most people don't know that I invented the selfie.