Quotes By Paul McCartney

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

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

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.

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.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

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.

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

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 used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it.

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

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.

I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.

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

I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.