Sadness isn’t sadness. It’s happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They’re balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It’s life that’s jumped off a tall cliff.
PAUL MCCARTNEYBut you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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The good Lord made this world and everything that’s in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.
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So, if I’m cooking, I’ll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn’t noticed the change, I’d been having such a ball!
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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To get a big hit single you’ve got to go a bit dance. You’ve got to go a bit Britney. I don’t think I can do that – well, I could but it wouldn’t look very seemly!.
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I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity. To see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
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I like most kinds of music. So I haven’t got a bag, as they say. Except the big black one in the hall outside.
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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through. You can go into a trance while you’re doing it, so it’s a nice contrast to real life.
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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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