Quotes By Paul McCartney

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

Think globally, act locally.

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

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

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.

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

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

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 love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.

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.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.

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

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

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.

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

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

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

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

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.