I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back.

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."

So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.

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 just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.