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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIf anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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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’m only 49 years old. I’m still in the middle of this whole thing. I don’t feel like it’s finished at all. I’m still planning to write better songs.
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At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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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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Animation is not just for children – it’s also for adults who take drugs.
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Think globally, act locally.
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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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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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