Linda McCartney Quotes

We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girl's nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either.

Oppression won't win, the light comes from within.

Most people if I like their music, I can get good pictures.

We have lasted this long close together, so we must have something going for each other.

I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.

I would like them all to enjoy life and try different things until there is something they really like.

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight.

Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.

I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough.

When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation.

Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.

We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now.

There's the feeling, and the right reading - that's all you really need to know; the right light and the feeling.

We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized that we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said, "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did.

We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals.

When Paul was arrested in Japan for having hash in his luggage, I thought he'd be out that night. But it became really serious stuff when he was kept in a cell. I became more fearful as the days went by.

We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.