Quotes By Paul McCartney

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

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.

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

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.

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.

I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.

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

I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.