Quotes By Paul McCartney

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

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.

So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

I don't work at being ordinary.

Think globally, act locally.

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

I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

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.

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.'

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.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

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.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

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

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.

I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!