I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
PAUL MCCARTNEYAnimation is not just for children – it’s also for adults who take drugs.
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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Lyricists play with words.
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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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I don’t work at being ordinary.
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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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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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.
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I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.
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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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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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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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It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
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