But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

- Paul McCartney

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

- Paul McCartney

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

- Paul McCartney

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

- Paul McCartney

I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.

- Paul McCartney

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.

- Paul McCartney

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

- Paul McCartney

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

- Paul McCartney

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

- Paul McCartney

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.

- Paul McCartney

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

- Paul McCartney

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

- Paul McCartney

I don't work at being ordinary.

- Paul McCartney

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

- Paul McCartney

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

- Paul McCartney

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

- Paul McCartney

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

- Paul McCartney

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

- 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.

- 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.

- Paul McCartney