When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThe best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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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’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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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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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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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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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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And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
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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.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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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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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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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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