Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It’s when you’re in jail you really become a criminal.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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There’s nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn’t exist before – I won’t compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
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When I write, there are times — not always — when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, I’ll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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I meet so many people that just sort of say, “I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me” or “It changed my life.”
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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It’s not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there’s a pretty good chance you’d call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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Animation is not just for children – it’s also for adults who take drugs.
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I’m still looking to write a great song. You always are. You know, you never think, ‘Well, that’s enough that’s good enough.’
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There are two things John and I always do when we’re going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don’t always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
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I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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