Quotes from Paul McCartney

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.

Every love song I write is for Linda.

My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.

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.

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.

I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and would want peace.

It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?

Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs

Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.

I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.

A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.

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.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

Long live all us crazy soldiers Who were born under calico skies May we never be called to handle All the weapons of war we despise

With the Beatles, we'd been very spoiled because we had George Martin who worked for the record label we were going to be signed to. That was very fortunate, because we grew together.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.

I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.

I don't work at being ordinary.

I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.