Top 78 Quotes by Paul McCartney

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.

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.

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

I'm the worst on facts about me or facts about the Beatles.

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.

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.