A biography for Paul McCartneyhasn’t been written yet.
“If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.”
“I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.”
“When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.”
“Think globally, act locally.”
“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.”
“It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.”
“I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.”
“The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
“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.”
“I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me.' It's a very common thing.”
“I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.”
“I don't work at being ordinary.”
“But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.”
“I'm the worst on facts about me or facts about the Beatles.”
“It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.”
“She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.”
“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.'”