Quotes By Paul McCartney

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.

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.

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.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

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

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'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.

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.