Paul McCartney Quotes - Page 12

Every love song I write is for Linda.

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.

I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

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

There will be no wardrobe malfunction with me. I can promise you that.... I have nothing I will be exposing or taking off.

That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.

Most people don't know that I invented the selfie.

And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette.

One of things about beards is that, when men reach a certain age, they'd like to see if they can grow one. It's a phenomenon I understand very well. After you get over the itchy face, you go, "Oh, I don't have to shave, that's cool." And then you move into the philosophical thing- people say, "You look weird, you have a beard." And you say, "No, actually, it's weird to shave." Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.

If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.

People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about.

The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.

I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.

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.

I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.

When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.

Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids.

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

I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe.

I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.

I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not write savage lyrics.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

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

It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.

I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.