Quotes By Paul Mccartney

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

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.

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

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.

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

To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.

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

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

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

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

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.

Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.