Paul McCartney Quotes

It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

I would have liked the Beatles never to have broken up. I wanted to get us back on the road doing small places, then move up to our previous form and then go and play. Just make music, and whatever else there was would be secondary.

I go back so far I'm in front of me.

Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.

The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so much better; I'm not sure we are. I tell people, We've beaten into submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we be generous? I really do think it's time to get nice. No need to keep beating up on them. I think we've got to show that we're kind.

One may not eat what has a face.

I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

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.

The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door.

I'm actually doing what I want with my life. I do sometime think I could just shut up and rest on my laurels and say: you know what guys, I'll operate out of the pocket you put me in.... but no way! No way I'm gonna do that! I'd just get bored stiff the first minute.

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."

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us.

To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.

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.

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.

No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.

I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.

Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue".

I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.

Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.

I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.

I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?

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.

My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.

So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.

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.

If I ever get out of here, thought of giving it all away to a registered charity.

It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude.

There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.

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

All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.

I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.

I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.

It's like there was me, then the Beatles phase, and now I'm me again.

This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.