Paul McCartney Quotes - Page 8

I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.

Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.

Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces

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.

It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.

I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn't realize I'd taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was. It didn't do anything for me, which was lucky because I wouldn't have fancied heading down that road.

Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.

I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school Lucy was a kid in his school.

That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.

You guys ready to do this?

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

If anyone had told me in the '60s that 20 years later we'd still be talking about whether pot was worse than this or that, I'd have said, Oh, come off it, boys.

The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.

People don't like land mines, especially the survivors and the people who are living in the countries with them. They think they are cowardly, like we do, so I think it's down to the governments to actually just listen to the people and sign the treaty and get rid of all these things and there would be an end to it.

Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.

I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.

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.

If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.

I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and would want peace.

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 don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.

I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.