Quotes from Paul McCartney

Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.

In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.

Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.

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.

Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.

I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.

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

She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.

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.

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?

All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.

The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.

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.

The thing you must remember is that I'm the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

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

Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.

There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land

I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life."