It’s like if you’re an astronaut and you’ve been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?
PAUL MCCARTNEYIt’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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Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That’s the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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Think globally, act locally.
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If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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Animation is not just for children – it’s also for adults who take drugs.
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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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Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.
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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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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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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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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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