A biography for Paul McCartneyhasn’t been written yet.
“So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.”
“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.”
“Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.”
“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 think the pop industry is still a young man's game.”
“Lyricists play with words.”
“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.”
“My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.”
“It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.”
“Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.”
“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.”
“You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”
“I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.”
“Love is all you need.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.”
“When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!”
“George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.”
“I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.”