A biography for Paul McCartneyhasn’t been written yet.
“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
“Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you.”
“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.”
“I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.”
“None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.”
“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.”
“Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.”
“Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.”
“Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.”
“I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.”
“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.”
“Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.”
“But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.”
“With the Beatles, we'd been very spoiled because we had George Martin who worked for the record label we were going to be signed to. That was very fortunate, because we grew together.”
“And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.”
“I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.”
“I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.”
“One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.”
“I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.”
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”