Linda McCartney

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.