Quotes from Paul McCartney

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

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

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.

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

When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids.

I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.

The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.

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

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

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

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

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.

Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.

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.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

I am not religious, but I am spiritual.

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

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.

...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.