460 Quotes by Paul McCartney

With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.

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.

All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.

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

Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.

It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.

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

If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.

If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.