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 left the Beatles, I made an album called McCartney that I played everything on. And it was kind of a cool experience. I felt like a professor ….

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 ….

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..

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..

It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time..

By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anythin….

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….

We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.

What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff..

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make..

Think globally, act locally..

I don't work at being ordinary..

Take these broken wings and learn to fly..

When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day..

Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs..

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'. Some….

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. Imagi….

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment..

Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs.

If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles..