Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBEis an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. With John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he gained worldwide fame with the rock band the Beatles, one of the most popular and influential groups in the history of pop music. His songwriting partnership with Lennon is one of the most celebrated of the 20th century. After the band's break-up, he pursued a solo career and formed Wings with his first wife, Linda, and Denny Laine...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth18 June 1942
CityLiverpool, England
If I ever get out of here, thought of giving it all away to a registered charity.
I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back.
If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.
I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'
Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?
It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transportation if it's convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn.
Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.
People don't like land mines, especially the survivors and the people who are living in the countries with them, ... They think they are cowardly, like we do, so I think it's down to the governments to actually just listen to the people and sign the treaty and get rid of all these things and there would be an end to it.
There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.
This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.
I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.
When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.
People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about.