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It’s not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there’s a pretty good chance you’d call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

Paul McCartney

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
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Death Happiness Jump Sadness Tears
It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Pool Resource Writing Yourself
A 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 MCCARTNEY

Artist Brilliant Lyrics Memories Writing Yourself
I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Instrument Myself Practice Singer
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
Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Home Myself Play Retirement
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
It’s like if you’re an astronaut and you’ve been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Life Moon Yourself
If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Death Known Myself
Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Natural Quite Weird Yourself
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Adult Grow Up Interesting Kind Music Symbol
I think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Eat Enough Retirement Time Yourself
To get a big hit single you’ve got to go a bit dance. You’ve got to go a bit Britney. I don’t think I can do that – well, I could but it wouldn’t look very seemly!.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Dance Thinking Yourself
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
When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don’t stop. There has to be something else. I think it’s the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Dreams Money Myself Need Stop Thinking

It’s not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there’s a pretty good chance you’d call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

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It’s not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there’s a pretty good chance you’d call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

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