Linda McCartney's Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.