Paul McCartney

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.

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

She's lovely, great. She was very friendly. She was just like a mum to us.

— Paul McCartney

Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.

— Paul McCartney

We probably seem to be anti-religious...none of us believes in God.

— Paul McCartney

I wasn't really dead.

— Paul McCartney

We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.

— Paul McCartney

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.

— Paul McCartney

We're constantly being asked all sorts of very profound questions. But we're not very profound people. People say, 'What do you think of the H-bomb, of religion, of fan worship?' But we didn't really start thinking about these things until people asked us. And even then we didn't get much time to consider them. What do I think of the H-bomb? Well, here's an answer with the full weight of five O levels and one A level behind it: I don't agree with it.

— Paul McCartney

With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.

— Paul McCartney

What a fucking great band we were.

— Paul McCartney

I tend not to say much on the phone now. If I leave a message, it's benign. You edit yourself according to the new circumstances of the new world. I think it would be quite good to get some sort of laws.

— Paul McCartney

I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.

— Paul McCartney

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away Oh, I believe in yesterday.

— Paul McCartney

Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

— Paul McCartney

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Oh, I believe in yesterday.

— Paul McCartney

To lead a better life, Nobody can deny that there's something there.

— Paul McCartney

I want her everywhere watching her eyes and hoping I'm always there.

— Paul McCartney

Lovely Rita, Meter Maid, nothing could come between us. When it gets dark I'll tow your heart away

— Paul McCartney

Will you still need me, when I'm sixty-four?

— Paul McCartney

Hey Jude, don't make it bad Then you can start to make it better.

— Paul McCartney

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

— Paul McCartney

The long and winding road that leads to your door Leads me to your door.

— Paul McCartney

I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.

— Paul McCartney

You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs I love you.

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

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!

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me,

— Paul McCartney

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!

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney