Quotes By Paul McCartney

I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.

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

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

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

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

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 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.

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.