I’m still looking to write a great song. You always are. You know, you never think, ‘Well, that’s enough that’s good enough.’
PAUL MCCARTNEYMy mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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The thing you must remember is that I’m the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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Painting 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.
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At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
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So, if I’m cooking, I’ll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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I think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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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.
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What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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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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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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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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