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“I don't dwell on what people say about me. I actually dwell more on what people say about Paul, for some reason. Maybe it's because he can't handle it.”

“And they just dismiss Linda, which is interesting because she’s not that dismissable. She’s actually a very talented girl. She’s a very good photographer for one. Everyone automatically dismisses her singing: She sings out of tune doesn’t she? I had a period when I started listening to them, thinking, Maybe they’re right. I know she’s not the world’s greatest singer, she’s not a front singer, but I liked it when we sang together, we seemed to blend. So I started to use more session singers where there was no question of whether they were any good or not, and I just didn’t like it, it just sounded like session singers to me. So I’ve come back to Linda”

“I remember very early on apologising because I was so tired, I said, ‘I’m really tired, I’m sorry.’ [Linda] said, ‘It’s allowed.’ I remember thinking, Fucking hell! That was a mind-blower. I’d never been with anyone who'd thought like that: ‘It’s allowed.’ And it was quite patently clear that it was allowed to be tired. I think I’d trained myself never to appear tired. Always to be on the ball. ‘Sorry I’m yawning. I’m sorry,’ which is complete bullshit. It’s a Beatles thing, you had to be there, you had to be on time.”

"I'd love him to give up touring altogether. But it's a bit like being married to a husband who is mad about golf. You might be able to talk him into giving up golf, and stay at home with you and the children but you'd be taking away a part of him. And marriage should be a give-and-take thing. You should each share in the things your partner wants to do.”

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