There is good and bad in everyone.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIt’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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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.
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through. You can go into a trance while you’re doing it, so it’s a nice contrast to real life.
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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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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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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.
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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Hamburg 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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Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
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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.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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