My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish. – Paul McCartney
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work. – Paul McCartney
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. – 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