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Putting Two Songs Together, I've Always Loved That Trick When It Works.

I Think The 'just Say No' Mentality Is So Crazed. I Saw A Thing In A Women's Magazine The Other Day. 'he Smokes Cannabis, What Am I To Do? He Laughs It Off When I Try To Tell Him, He Says It's Not Really Harmful...' Of Course You're Half Hoping The Advice Will Be, 'well, You Know It's Not That Harmful; If You Love Him, If You Talk To Him About It, Tell Him Maybe He Should Keep It In The Garden Shed Or Something,' You Know, A Reasonable Point Of View. But Of Course It Was, 'no, No, All Drugs Are Bad. Librium's Good, Valium's Good. But Cannabis, Ooooh!' I Hate That Unreasoned Attitude.

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.

So Many Times, I Will Have People Tell Me What I Did When I Was Younger. There's So Much Being Written [about] The Early Beatles Period, And Even Pre-beatles Period. And People Will Say, "oh, He Did That Because That, And That Happened Because Of That." And I'll Be Reading And Think, "well, That Didn't Happen" And, "that's Not Why I Did That." Like Anyone's History, You Remember What Went Down Better Than People Who Weren't There.

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 Realized Marvelling At Nature Was A Deep Pleasure Of Mine.

I Think [transcendental Meditation] Is What People Need. They Don't Need High Minded Talk, They Need Results.

One Of Things About Beards Is That, When Men Reach A Certain Age, They'd Like To See If They Can Grow One. It's A Phenomenon I Understand Very Well. After You Get Over The Itchy Face, You Go, "oh, I Don't Have To Shave, That's Cool." And Then You Move Into The Philosophical Thing- People Say, "you Look Weird, You Have A Beard." And You Say, "no, Actually, It's Weird To Shave." Having A Beard Is Natural. When You Think About It, Shaving It Off Is Quite Weird.

It Comes In Handy In Situations Like That. People Always Expect You To Be Riding Around In Stretch Limousines All The Time, But I Will Sometimes Take Public Transportation If It's Convenient, And It Does Surprise People, You See The Heads Turn.

To This Day, If I Ever Meet Grownups Who Play Ukulele, I Love 'em.

That's Not Really Important What Religion People Are Attached To, Because By The Same Argument I Have A Lot Of Christian Friends And Moslem Friends. It's Just Happened That I Do Have A Lot Of Relatives And Friends Who Are Jewish.

Relatives And Friends

When I Sit Down To Write A Song, It's A Kind Of Improvisation, But I Formalize It A Bit To Get It Into The Studio, And When I Step Up To A Microphone, I Have A Vague Idea Of What I'm About To Do.

The Planet Is Under Pressure And Our Choices Have Never Been More Important. The Food Revolution Summit Is An Informative And Empowering Platform Which Highlights Ways To Set A New Pattern For The Future Of The Planet.

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.

Lyricists Play With Words.

If You Love Your Life, Everybody Will Love You Too.

Bach Was So Mathematical And I Liked This Idea That You Could Have One Instrument Going, 'one, Two, Three, Four', And Then You Have Another Instrument Going, [double Time] 'one, Two, Three Four', And Another Instrument Going, [doubled Again] 'one, Two, Three, Four, One, Two, Three, Four', So You Could Add Twos And Fours And Eighths, And That Happens A Lot In Bach.

I Took My Brains Out And Stretched Them On The Rack, Now I'm Not Too Sure I'm Gonna Get Them Back.

If Anyone Was The Fifth Beatle, It Was Brian [epstein].

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'm Not A Great Practiser At All. We Were Never Great Practisers. The Beatles Would Come Together For About A Day Before We Had A Tour, To Make Sure The Amp Worked.

I Feel Like The Sixties Is About To Happen. It Feels Like A Period In The Future To Me, Rather Than A Period In The Past.

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.

Buy, Buy, Says The Sign In The Shop Window; Why, Why, Says The Junk In The Yard.

I Think A Domestic Situation Can Change You And Your Attitudes. I Suppose If You Did Get A Bit Content, Then You Might Not Write Savage Lyrics.

The Pound Is Sinking, The Peso's Failing, The Lira's Reeling, And Feeling Quite Appalling.

Criticism Didn't Really Stop Us And It Shouldn't Ever Stop Anyone, Because Critics Are Only The People Who Can't Get A Record Deal Themselves.

If I Ever Get Out Of Here, Thought Of Giving It All Away To A Registered Charity.

I Should Be Able To Look At My Accolades And Go, "come On, Paul. That's Enough." But There's Still This Little Voice In The Back Of My Brain That Goes, "no, No, No. You Could Do Better. This Person Over Here Is Excelling. Try Harder!" It Still Can Be A Little Bit Intimidating.

I Don't Ever Try To Make A Serious Social Comment.

That's The Terrible Thing About Growing Up. You Lose Friends. It's Inevitable. It's Not Like It's A Surprise. But It Is Terrible.

I Don't Think Of Myself As A Legend. I Just Love What I Do. I Love Playing With My Band, I Love Going To Beautiful Places And Give People Good Music. I Love What I Do, I`m Very Lucky Man.

At The End Of The Beatles, I Really Was Done In For The First Time In My Life. Until Then, I Really Was A Kind Of Cocky Sod.

I Think When You're Making An Album, As The Songs Are Piling Up, One Of The Good Things About It Is That You Will Often Write The Song That You Need.

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.

Love Doesn't Come In A Minute, Sometimes It Doesn't Come At All.

It's A Powerful Thing Hearing Your Friend On A Very Beautiful Song.

No Matter How Accomplished Or How Many Awards You Get, You're Always Still Thinking There's Somebody Out There Who's Better Than You.

I Would Quite Like To Have Been A 1920s Writer.

I'm Always Writing Songs, And I've Got A Bunch That I Want To Record.

At The Office Where The Paper Grows, She Takes A Break, Drinks Another Coffee, And She Finds It Hard To Stay Awake. It's Just Another Day.

I Did Study Shakespeare, That Was Sort Of My Thing; I Got A Literature A-level, Which Is My Only Claim To Academic Fame.

My Dad Was A Particularly Polite Kind Of Guy, Very Courteous. So When We Got On A Bus, He Would Always Encourage Me And My Younger Brother To Get Up And Offer Our Seat To An Old Lady. I Grew Up Kind Of Liking That, Thinking, Y'know, That's A Nice Thing, That's A Courtesy.

I Have Not Practiced How To Be A Singer Without An Instrument.

It's Been My Ambition For About 30 Years To Do A Full- Length Animation Film.

I Hate The Idea Of Success Robbing You Of Your Private Life.

I'm Actually Doing What I Want With My Life. I Do Sometime Think I Could Just Shut Up And Rest On My Laurels And Say: You Know What Guys, I'll Operate Out Of The Pocket You Put Me In.... But No Way! No Way I'm Gonna Do That! I'd Just Get Bored Stiff The First Minute.

When A War Is Over I Think It's A Cowardly Thing To Leave The War Behind You In Minefields That Hit Women And Children And The Most Vulnerable. Imagine The War Is Finished And You Go To Work And There Are Snipers Shooting At You. Imagine Taking Your Kids To The Beach And You Find That The Beach Is Blowing Up Beneath You. Like There's Nowhere Safe.

Animation Is Not Just For Children - It's Also For Adults Who Take Drugs.

For Tomorrow May Rain, So I'll Follow The Sun...

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.

Linda's At Her Best When She's Doing You A Meal At Home. That's When You See Linda. She Cooks, She Looks After The Kids.

It Was A Period When They Used To Read Into Our Lyrics A Lot, Used To Think There Was More In Them Than There Was.

There Is Good And Bad In Everyone.

It's Time To End The Cruel Slaughter Of Whales And Leave These Magnificent Creatures Alone.

We Don't Eat Anything That Has To Be Killed For Us.

As Far As Art's Concerned, I Probably Like Modern Art More Than Traditional Art.

My Dad Was A Particularly Polite Kind Of Guy, Very Courteous.

You're Always Looking At Last Year, Or 10 Years Ago, Or Your School Days, Or Your Teenage Years, Your Formative Years. Because That's Exactly What They Are, They're Your Formative Years.

It Was Elvis Who Really Got Me Hooked On Beat Music. When I Heard 'heartbreak Hotel' I Thought, This Is It.

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.'

There Are A Lot Of Artists Who Haven't Lost Anything To Domesticity. In My Case, It Probably Did Happen.

If There Were No Carl Perkins, There Would Be No Beatles.

George Martin, He's Very Good At A Very Sort Of Lush, Sweet Arrangement.

Life Is An Energy Field, A Bunch Of Molecules. And These Particular Molecules Formed To Make These Four Guys, Who Then Formed Into This Band Called The Beatles And Did All That Work. I Have To Think That Was Something Metaphysical. Something Alchemic. Something That Must Be Thought Of As Magic.

If This Ever Changing World In Which We Live In Makes You Give In And Cry, Say Live And Let Die.

Sometimes When You Write A Thing You Think, 'oh, This Is Good', And It's Not A Modesty Or An Immodesty Thing, You Just... It's Just The Same With Anything; When You Write A Piece You Just Figure, 'oh Yeah, I'm On A Roll Here. This Is Good; I'm Getting The Hang Of This'. Some Pieces Are Better Than Others.

There’s Nothing As Glamorous To Me As A Record Store.

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.

Finding The One

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.

Home In Her Apartment She'd Dwell 'til The Man From Her Dreams Comes To Break The Spell.

There Was One Moment Where They Were Riding Their Little Ponies In Scotland, And Stella Said To Me: 'dad! You're Paul Mccartney, Aren't You?' 'yes Darling, But I'm Daddy Really'.

My Stepmother Sold My Birth Certificate And Someone Asked Why I Didn't Buy It Back. I Don't Know, Really. I Just Couldn't Bring Myself To Do It. It Was Mine. It Cost Me Nothing And Suddenly I Had To Buy It Back.

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.

I Love To Hear A Choir. I Love The Humanity... To See The Faces Of Real People Devoting Themselves To A Piece Of Music. I Like The Teamwork. It Makes Me Feel Optimistic About The Human Race When I See Them Cooperating Like That.

There's Nothing Bigger Than Being Asked To Perform At The Super Bowl.

Bend Like The Willow, Winds Gonna Blow You Hard And Cold Tonight. Life As It Happens, Nobody Warns You, Willow Hold On Tight.

I Love The Past. There Are Parts Of The Past I Hate, Of Course.

In Some Ways We Live In A World Where Things Appear To Be Very Logical, Very Rational, And Mechanical Aspects Of Our World Are Rather Scientific And Rather Straightforward.

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.

We Were A Savage Little Lot, Liverpool Kids, Not Pacifist Or Vegetarian Or Anything. But I Feel I've Gone Beyond That, And That It Was Immature To Be So Prejudiced And Believe In All The Stereotypes.

I'd Like To Be Able To Go On Holiday And Not To Have To Hold My Belly In For Two Whole Weeks.

I Didn't Earn That Much In Record Royalties. You've Only Got To Look At My Sales In 1980 To Figure That One Out.

Alas, It Looks Like Those Unsubstantiated Rumours About Me Are About To Come True After All This Time.

I Don't Have Any Desire To Learn. I Feel It's Like A Voodoo, That It Would Spoil Things If I Actually Learnt How Things Are Done.

This Was One Of The Best Things About Lennon And Mccartney, The Competitive Element Within The Team. It Was Great. But Hard To Live With.

Transcendental Meditation Gives Me An Island Of Calm In The Midst Of So Much Turbulence.

What's Wrong With Sentimental? Sentimental Means You Like Stuff.

I'm Not Religious, But I'm Very Spiritual.

I'm Still Looking To Write A Great Song.... You Always Are. You Know, You Never Think, 'well, That's Enough ... That's Good Enough.'

It's Also Not Unusual For Writers To Look Backward. Because That's Your Pool Of Resources.

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.

The Interesting Thing About The Beatles Was: The Music Was One Thing, But We Kind Of Symbolized A Certain Kind Of Freedom At A Time When People Of Our Generation Were Just Growing Up And Just Becoming Adults.

What I Have To Say Is All In The Music. If I Want To Say Anything, I Write A Song.

I Did Cocaine For About A Year Around The Time Of Sgt Pepper. Coke And Maybe Some Grass To Balance It Out. I Was Never Completely Crazy With Cocaine. I'd Been Introduced To It And At First It Seemed Ok, Like Anything That's New And Stimulating. When You Start Working Your Way Through It, You Start Thinking: 'mmm, This Is Not So Cool An Idea,' Especially When You Start Getting Those Terrible Comedowns.

If You Can Play Your Stuff In A Pub, Then You´re A Good Band.

And I Loved Fats Waller. I Love His Instrumental Abilities, His Vocal Abilities And His Sense Of Humor.

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.

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Actually Wasn't Meant To Say Lsd It Was A Drawing That John's Son Brought Home From School Lucy Was A Kid In His School.

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

And Jet, I Thought The Major Was A Lady Suffragette.

For You Know That It's A Fool Who Plays It Cool, By Making His World A Little Colder.

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.

Every Love Song I Write Is For Linda.

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.

I Tried Heroin Just The Once. Even Then, I Didn't Realize I'd Taken It. I Was Just Handed Something, Smoked It, Then Found Out What It Was. It Didn't Do Anything For Me, Which Was Lucky Because I Wouldn't Have Fancied Heading Down That Road.

When We Were Kids Growing Up In Liverpool, All We Ever Wanted To Be Was Elvis Presley.

But With Writers, There's Nothing Wrong With Melancholy. It's An Important Color In Writing.

I Was Impossible. I Don't Know How Anyone Could Have Lived With Me. For The First Time In My Life, I Was On The Scrap Heap, An Unemployed Worker.

I Do Have A Spongelike Ear Or Mentality Or Whatever You Call It, But It's Probably A Bit Subconscious.

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.

The Medical Argument For Animal Testing Doesn't Stand Up. Even If It Did, I Don't Think We Should Kill Other Species. We Think We're So Much Better; I'm Not Sure We Are. I Tell People, We've Beaten Into Submission Every Animal On The Face Of The Earth, So We Are The Clear Winners Of Whatever Battle Is Going On Between The Species. Couldn't We Be Generous? I Really Do Think It's Time To Get Nice. No Need To Keep Beating Up On Them. I Think We've Got To Show That We're Kind.

I Go Back So Far I'm In Front Of Me.

The Music Publishing I Own Is Fabulous Recording.

I Would Have Liked The Beatles Never To Have Broken Up. I Wanted To Get Us Back On The Road Doing Small Places, Then Move Up To Our Previous Form And Then Go And Play. Just Make Music, And Whatever Else There Was Would Be Secondary.

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.

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.

The Willow Turns His Back On Inclement Weather. And If He Can Do It, We Can Do It.

When You Get The Money, You Still Need To Keep Going; You Don't Stop. There Has To Be Something Else. I Think It's The Freedom To Do What You Want And To Live Your Dreams.

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.

Think Globally, Act Locally.

Live A Little Be A Gypsy, Get Around. Get Your Feet Up Off The Ground, Live A Little, Get Around.

If Children Are Studying The 20th Century, I'm In Their Text Books.

My Record Producer [david Kahne] Said The Major Record Labels These Days Are Like Dinosaurs Sitting Around Discussing The Asteroid. They Know It's Going To Hit. They Don't Know When, They Don't Know Where It's Coming From. But It's Sort Of Hit Already. With Itunes, And All Of That.

No One Is Out To Break Your Heart, It Only Seems That Way.

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.

When You Got A Job To Do, You Got To Do It Well. You Gotta Give The Other Fellow Hell.

So, If I'm Cooking, I'll Be Steaming Vegetables, Making Some Nice Salad, That Kind Of Stuff.

I'm Mad, You Know? I Don't Think Of Retiring At All.

I Don't Know Anything About The Appalachian Mountains Or Cowboys And Indians Or Anything. I Just Made It Up.

Some People Want To Fill The World With Silly Love Songs

Why Would I Retire? Sit At Home And Watch Tv? No Thanks. I'd Rather Be Out Playing.

Most People Don't Know That I Invented The Selfie.

We Live In Hope Of Deliverance From The Darkness That Surrounds Us

I Believe That In The Future Meditation Could Be As Commonplace In Schools And Society As Eco-awareness Is Now. It Interests Me That An Ancient Cure May Be The Solution To A Modern Problem.

Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me, When I'm Sixty-four?

Unanswered Questions

Fight For The Right To Live In Freedom!

It's As Serious As Anyone Ever Gets, You Know. It's Just Words. It's Just Good Poetry.

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.

Hamburg Totally Wrecked Us. I Remember Getting Home To England And My Dad Thought I Was Half-dead. I Looked Like A Skeleton, I Hadn't Noticed The Change, I'd Been Having Such A Ball!

If Anyone Wants To Save The Planet, All They Have To Do Is Just Stop Eating Meat. That's The Single Most Important Thing You Could Do. It's Staggering When You Think About It. Vegetarianism Takes Care Of So Many Things In One Shot: Ecology, Famine, Cruelty.

I Think Globally And Act Locally.

A Hundred Years From Now, People Will Listen To The Music Of The Beatles The Same Way We Listen To Mozart.

Take These Broken Wings And Learn To Fly.

When You Said You Were A Terrible Singer, I Thought You Were Being Humble. But You Weren't.

Being In The Audience Actually Looks Like Quite A Lot Of Fun.

To Get A Big Hit Single You've Got To Go A Bit Dance. You've Got To Go A Bit Britney. I Don't Think I Can Do That - Well, I Could But It Wouldn't Look Very Seemly!.

In The End, The Love You Take Is Equal To The Love You Make.

People Don't Like Land Mines, Especially The Survivors And The People Who Are Living In The Countries With Them. They Think They Are Cowardly, Like We Do, So I Think It's Down To The Governments To Actually Just Listen To The People And Sign The Treaty And Get Rid Of All These Things And There Would Be An End To It.

Microphones Are Just Like People, If You Shout At Them, They Get Scared.

I Used To Go Round To Aunt Mimi's House And John Would Be At The Typewriter, Which Was Fairly Unusual In Liverpool. None Of My Mates Even Knew What A Typewriter Was. Well They Knew What It Was But They Didn't Hae One. Nobody Had One.

Be Cool And You'll Be Alright. That's Rock & Roll Religion.

Painting Is Similar To Music. You Get A Couple Or Words Or Notes Or Chords That Excite You, And You Just Follow Them And Add A Bit More And See Where It Takes You. That's The Thrill For Me. It Still Is A Thrill, Which Is Amazing After All This Time.

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'm Not Really Comfortable Singing Without Accompanying Myself On Stage - I'm Not Used To It.

Every Time I Felt Low, I Just Put On An Elvis Record And I'd Feel Great, Beautiful.

Pete Ham In The Group Was A Very Good Writer.Â He Wrote The Nilsson Song "without You", Which Is A Seriously Good Song.Â But The Poor Fellow Topped Himself.Â He Was A Lovely Bloke, I Can Still See Him Now.Â It Was A Terrible Loss.

The Beatles Were Always A Great Band. Nothing More Nothing Less

You Guys Ready To Do This?

I Think The French Girls Are Fabulous.

Out Of All Those Millions And Millions Of Planets Floating Around There In Space, This Is Our Planet, This Is Our Little One, So We Just Got To Be Aware Of It And Take Care Of It.

Going To Do It To You Sweet Banana, Like It's Never Been Done, And We'll Get High, High, High, In The Mid-day Sun.

When We Were Kids We Always Used To Say, ‘okay, Whoever Dies First, Get A Message Through.’ When John Died, I Thought, ‘well, Maybe We’ll Get A Message,’ Because I Know He Knew The Deal. I Haven’t Had A Message From John.

I Can't Manage Without Homeopathy. In Fact, I Never Go Anywhere Without Homeopathic Remedies. I Often Make Use Of Them.

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!

The Ring At The End Of My Nose Makes Me Look Rather Pretty.

The Best Thing I Ever Saw Was A Man Who Loved His Wife.

I'm Only 49 Years Old. I'm Still In The Middle Of This Whole Thing. I Don't Feel Like It's Finished At All. I'm Still Planning To Write Better Songs.

When I Write, There Are Times -- Not Always -- When I Hear John (lennon) In My Head, ... I'll Think, Ok, What Would We Have Done Here?, And I Can Hear Him Gripe Or Approve.

I Never Really Got On That Well With Yoko Anyway. Strangely Enough, I Only Started To Get To Know Her After John's Death.

Some People Don't Believe In Climate Warning - Like Those Who Don't Believe There Was A Holocaust.

Sometimes You Write A Song In A Certain Era And It's Got A Certain Kind Of Significance.

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.

There Will Be An Answer. Let It Be.

There Are Two Things John And I Always Do When We're Going To Sit Down And Write A Song. First Of All We Sit Down. Then We Think About Writing A Song.

People Would Say To Me, “hey Man, You Look Just Like Paul Mccartney”, And I'd Say: “i Wish I Had His Money!”

It Was Bad On Linda. She Had To Deal With This Guy Who Didn't Want To Get Out Of Bed And, If He Did, Wanted To Go Back To Bed Pretty Soon After. He Wanted To Drink Earlier And Earlier Each Day And Didn't Really See The Point In Shaving. I Was Generally Pretty Morbid.

Drugs Had Shown Me Little Bits Here And There-they Had Rolled Across The Carpet Once Or Twice, But I Had Been Able To Get Them Out Of My Mind.

It's Nice To Have A Little Bit Of Art To Fall Back On.

If Anyone Had Told Me In The '60s That 20 Years Later We'd Still Be Talking About Whether Pot Was Worse Than This Or That, I'd Have Said, Oh, Come Off It, Boys.

I'm Singing 'english Tea' From My New Album 'chaos And Creation In The Backyard.' I Have A Cup Of Tea In The Morning, So It's Something Good To Wake Up To.

People Who Paint, Including Myself, Get To A Point Where A Bit Of Angst Comes In. If You're Doing It For A Living, It's Worth It To Suffer Those Slings And Arrows.

Lady Madonna Lying On The Bed Listen To The Music Playing In Your Head.

Personal Differences, Musical Differences, Business Differences, But Most Of All Because I Have A Better Time With My Family.

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.

I Was Still 15 When I Met John Lennon At A Village Fete In Woolton, In Liverpool.

I Think The Minute You're Full Up And Have Had Enough To Eat, Then That's Time To Retire.

A Lot Of Artists Use Memories. A Lot Of Prose Writers, A Lot Of Poets, A Lot Of Songwriters, Refer Back To Something. Generally It's All You've Got, Unless You're Brilliant And Can Write Totally In The Now.

I Have Always Adored Mahler, And Mahler Was A Major Influence On The Music Of The Beatles. John And Me Used To Sit And Do The Kindertotenlieder And Wunderhorn For Hours, We'd Take Turns Singing And Playing The Piano. We Thought Mahler Was Gear.

Give Ireland Back To The Irish, Don't Make Them Have To Take It Away.

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.

It's Not Unusual For Writers To Look Backward. Because That's Your Pool Of Resources. If You Were To Write Something Now, I Bet There's A Pretty Good Chance You'd Call On Your Teenage Years, Your Experiences Then, Stuff You Learned Then.

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.

Many Years Ago I Was Fishing, And As I Was Reeling In The Poor Fish, I Realised, 'i Am Killing Him - All For The Passing Pleasure It Brings Me'. Something Inside Me Clicked. I Realised As I Watched Him Fight For Breath That His Life Was As Important To Him As Mine Is To Me.

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.

I'm Trying To Do It Honestly And Genuinely; If Some Of It's Not Working To Your Taste, What Can I Say?

It's A Lifelong Gift, Something You Can Call On At Any Time.

Meditation Practice

Meditation And Yoga

The Most Important Ingredient To Making A Song Work Is The Magic. You've Got A Melody, You've Got Words, But On The More Successful Songs, There's A Sort Of Magic Glow That Just Happens And You Can Feel It Happening. It Just Makes The Songs Sort Of Roll Out.

I've Got A Few Guitars That I Like. The Trouble With Fame And Riches Is That You Have More Than One Guitar.

Paul's Last Words To Linda: "you're Up On Your Beautiful Appaloosa Stallion. It's A Fine Spring Day. We're Riding Through The Woods. The Bluebells Are All Out, And The Sky Is Clear-blue".

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