Quotes from Paul McCartney

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

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.

I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.

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

I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I'm very lucky man.

People would say to me, "Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney", and I'd say: "I wish I had his money!"

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

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

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.

When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.

I'm singing 'English Tea' from my new album 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.' I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it's something good to wake up to.

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.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

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

I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.

If you love your life, everybody will love you too.

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.

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.

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.'

There is good and bad in everyone.