Paul McCartney Quotes

I am not religious, but I am spiritual.

I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.

I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not write savage lyrics.

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think: "Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me". It's a very common thing.

Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.

At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day.

I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all.

Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head.

For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.

Every love song I write is for Linda.

If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us.

John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.

There will be no wardrobe malfunction with me. I can promise you that.... I have nothing I will be exposing or taking off.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life.

George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them

The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.

We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe.

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.

I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies.

Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.

If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.

I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.

If I ever get out of here, thought of giving it all away to a registered charity.

All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.

My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.

Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.

There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.

The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.

And, in the endThe love you takeis equal to the love you make.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.

Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you.