3 December 2020 Paul McCartney 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Paul McCartney Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
3 December 2020 Paul McCartney I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John’s death.
3 December 2020 Paul McCartney It’s time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
3 December 2020 Paul McCartney I’m a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.
3 December 2020 Paul McCartney My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
3 December 2020 Paul McCartney You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
3 December 2020 Paul McCartney And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
3 December 2020 Paul McCartney Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
3 December 2020 Paul McCartney Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
3 December 2020 Paul McCartney 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.
3 December 2020 Paul McCartney It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
3 December 2020 Paul McCartney 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.
