When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhen you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhat’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIf I were dead, I would be the last to know.
PAUL MCCARTNEYBut with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
PAUL MCCARTNEYMy arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhen we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhen you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIf slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWill you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
PAUL MCCARTNEYYou can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI 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 MCCARTNEYPainting 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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWe live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThe 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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIf anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
PAUL MCCARTNEY