"I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual."
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"And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?"
"But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp."
"I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back."
"There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song."
"And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be..."
"Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful."
"Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight."
"When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell."
"Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away."
"Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time."
"When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley."
"But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing."
"When we were kids we always used to say, ‘Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.’ When John died, I thought, ‘Well, maybe we’ll get a message,’ because I know he knew the deal. I haven’t had a message from John."
"Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on."
"I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating."
"I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem."
"The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling."
"If anyone had told me in the '60s that 20 years later we'd still be talking about whether pot was worse than this or that, I'd have said, Oh, come off it, boys."
"I go back so far I'm in front of me."