Paul McCartney

"My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous."

"Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well."

"We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells."

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

"Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing."

"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."

"When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!"

"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music."

"The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated."

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

"And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor."

"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."

"You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals."

"Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you."

"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."

"When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live."

"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird."

"When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me,speaking words of wisdom, let it be. And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me,speaking words of wisdom, let it be. Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be. Whisper words of wisdom, let it be. And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree,there will be an answer, let it be. For though they may be parted there is still a chance that they will see,there will be an answer. let it be. Let it be, let it be, ... And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light, that shines on me,shine until tomorrow, let it be. I wake up to the sound of music, mother Mary comes to me,speaking words of wisdom, let it be. Let it be, let it be, ..."

"Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you."