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I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.

Paul McCartney

There 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 MCCARTNEY

Myself Song Thinking Writing
It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Pool Resource Writing Yourself
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Better Feeling Myself Planning Writing
So, if I’m cooking, I’ll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Cook Kind Myself
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Existence Moments Myself Sex Song
Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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Audience Fun Quite
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
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Junk Shop Window
By the time we made “Abbey Road”, John and I were openly critical of each other’s music, and I felt John wasn’t much interested in performing anything he hadn’t written himself.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Criticism Myself Open Performance Time Writing
When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Boredom Children Excitement Live Start Thinking
I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Brain Myself Stretch
I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

One Liner Religious Spiritual
When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Alert Awake Day Greatness Wide Yourself
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Age Grow Up Myself
I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It’s when you’re in jail you really become a criminal.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Crime Discrimination Myself Support Wrong
Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Fly Inspirational Learning Wings
Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don’t always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Allow Artist Opinion People Yourself
Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Calm Meditation Myself
I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Feeling Future Myself Past
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Creation Hands Myself People Simplicity Thinking
What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Feeling Music Myself Song Writing
We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Darkness Live Ourselves Surround
Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Adventure Drink Whistle
I meet so many people that just sort of say, “I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me” or “It changed my life.”
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Change Life Music Myself People Thankful
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Approve Myself Time Writing
I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Myself Noise Song
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 MCCARTNEY

Call Myself People Thinking Weird
I’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Better Improvement Myself Time

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