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ONE OF THE REASONS AUNTIE JIN CAME DOWN TO VISIT me in London when I was about twenty-four or twenty-five was to talk to me about the sin of smoking pot. Her nickname was "Control", and she had been sent down by the family as an emissary.

[Daqui a nada vão dizer-me que toda a gente tem uma tia Consciência... E eu a pensar que era especial!]

People often say, 'Oh, you work so hard,' and I say, 'We don't work; we play. I try to keep that in the front of my brain when things are getting tiresome. 'Jesus, we've worked too hard. No, we've played too hard.'

THE QUAINTLY, IF ACCURATELY, NAMED PHILIP SON & NEPHEW was the bookshop in Liverpool in which I spent quite a lot of time, I've always liked bookshops, since I was a kid. I love the smell of them. I love the fact that all this work is collected together under one roof.

[Olha, olha, o senhor McCartney a querer fazer amigos entre os amantes de livros :D]

THEN WE WERE FIRST IN THE BEATLES, WE USED TO GET asked whether we were worried that we might have joined W the Establishment. We thought The Establishment was a club in London - which indeed it was. We didn't really know precisely what it meant, except that we were now part of the status quo. Of course, we insisted we weren't part of anything posh. We knew a few posh people, but that was it.

We couldn't write flops. That wouldn't have been right for The Beatles.
So, I had developed a knack for writing a popular song or a hit. (...)I had loads of tricks that I could use. One of them is shouting; that works. A shout is always a good song opener.

[E, às vezes, nem é preciso tanto. Ouvir os senhores das obras a arranhar Hey Jude, ainda ontem, fez o meu dia :D]

One night I noticed a very old woman in the front row, and I thought, 'Oh shit, we're going to kill her'. But there was no stopping, I couldn't stop the song and say, 'Cover your ears, love!' So when it came to that line, I looked away. 'Live and let...' BOOM! And she hadn't died after all. She was grinning from ear to ear and loving it.

[Paternalista... Na volta, ainda a velhota lhes ensinava umas coisas :D]

I've never really thought much about my voice. I've been lucky enough not to have to. People say to me, "Do you use your head voice or your chest voice?" I say, 'I'm afraid I don't know the difference. I haven't analysed it'.