Quotes from Paul McCartney

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

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

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

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.

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

Think globally, act locally.

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.

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.

When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life.

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

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.

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!

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.

The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!

I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me.' It's a very common thing.

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.

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

Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...

To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.

I'm the worst on facts about me or facts about the Beatles.

Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.