Paul Mccartney

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.

It's like there was me, then the Beatles phase, and now I'm me again.

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.

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

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.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

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.'

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.

When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.

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

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

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!

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.

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.

...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.

To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.

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

I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.

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