Paul McCartney Quotes - Page 7

When I left the Beatles, I made an album called McCartney that I played everything on. And it was kind of a cool experience. I felt like a professor in a laboratory, just crafting stuff and adding this, and putting this on and moving the microphone, and it was very homemade.

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

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

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

I'm singing 'English Tea' from my new album 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.' I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it's something good to wake up to.

My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.

My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.

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.

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

When we were kids we always used to say, ‘Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.’ When John died, I thought, ‘Well, maybe we’ll get a message,’ because I know he knew the deal. I haven’t had a message from John.

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.

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.

I think the French girls are fabulous.

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.

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

I'm not a great practiser at all. We were never great practisers. The Beatles would come together for about a day before we had a tour, to make sure the amp worked.

Drugs had shown me little bits here and there-they had rolled across the carpet once or twice, but I had been able to get them out of my mind.

Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.

Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.