I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhat’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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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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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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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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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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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.
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The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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Lyricists play with words.
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The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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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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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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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.
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Animation is not just for children – it’s also for adults who take drugs.
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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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.
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I 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.
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It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
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What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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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.
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It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.
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It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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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.
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