Paul McCartney

When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.

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.

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

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

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.

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.

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.

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.

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

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.