Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
PAUL MCCARTNEYHamburg 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 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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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you’re always still thinking there’s somebody out there who’s better than you.
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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 realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that’s why I can’t eat it. Simple as that.
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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.
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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
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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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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.
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One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
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Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
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The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
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