Linda McCartney Quotations

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

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

I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness.

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

When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.

We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

He is a terrible planner, though. So am I.

He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

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.

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.

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

I'd lived in Arizona, and I loved Arizona. But I had a husband I was separated from, and a baby to support. So I moved back to New York. I used to think it was scary. I remember the first time I drove into the city, right after I got my license. All that traffic, those buildings. Oh! Scared me to death!

I absolutely adore my kids more than anything. They're my best friends.

James is studying architecture now, but neither Paul nor I would be surprised if he moves into music, as he has such a passion for playing.

Out of the six of us, I am the quietest.

Stella is doing great as a designer, and I love her clothes. We went to her first Chloe show in Paris, and I was just so proud of her and the reaction she got.

We're very proud of the way in which all our kids want to do their own thing.

They all have some talent. Mary plays the recorder beautifully. I am not pushing them on, though. They are pretty good at the moment just being kids.

I used to get on great with journalists until I married Paul.

Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will break my heart.

I'm rather complimented that Mary has caught my passion for photography.

In the years since I first met Paul Ive had all sorts of labels stuck on me. Now the new label is businesswomen. Sure I have this business. But what I am, what I am myself, is a photographer.

In our position, we could have a big house with maids and chauffeurs - but what's the point of having kids if you have all that?

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

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

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

I've always hated religion. It's the most guilt-ridden, horrible thing. 'My God is better than yours, and I'm going to fight you and kill you because of your religion.' I think it's just a sick idea. You know how people are color-blind when it comes to other people - I mean, hopefully they are. Well, I'm religious-blind.

Our kids haven't any airs about them. I don't like posh kids who don't like dirty dolls or expect a chauffeur every time they go out.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain.

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.

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.