Quotes from Paul McCartney

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

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

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.

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

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

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.

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

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

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.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.

I don't work at being ordinary.

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.

Think globally, act locally.

the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less