There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes darling, but I'm Daddy really'.

I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.

I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.

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.

Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!

Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.

A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.