Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
PAUL MCCARTNEYEvery time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
PAUL MCCARTNEYBuy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI think the French girls are fabulous.
PAUL MCCARTNEYMy 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 MCCARTNEYI love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
PAUL MCCARTNEYA lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it’s all you’ve got, unless you’re brilliant and can write totally in the now.
PAUL MCCARTNEYLyricists play with words.
PAUL MCCARTNEYBeing in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThere 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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIf You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
PAUL MCCARTNEYOne may not eat what has a face.
PAUL MCCARTNEYSo, if I’m cooking, I’ll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIf children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIf slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
PAUL MCCARTNEY