Top 78 Quotes by Paul McCartney

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

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.

I don't work at being ordinary.

Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me.' It's a very common thing.

I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.