#interviewers try not to ask paul extremely invasive questions challenge

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Q: How much of your success was motivated by trying to do him proud?

PAUL McCARTNEY: Quite a lot of it. And I was certainly able to in his case. I wasn’t with my mom, unfortunately. She died before I sort of did anything. She never really got to see any success. Well, who says she didn’t? I like to think that [she did].

Q: You lost both your mom and Linda to breast cancer. What comes up for you when you think of that?

PAUL McCARTNEY: Yeah, terrible. When Linda was ill it triggered memories [of] my mom — I tried to put it in the back of my mind because we were always hoping that [Linda] wouldn’t die. So I blanked ’em out. One particular one: My dad used to say to my mom when she’d get tired, “Why don’t you go upstairs and have 40 winks?” And you better believe I never said that to Linda. I’d say, “Do you want to nap?” I never used the expression “40 winks.” You get superstitious in those circumstances. So yeah, there were all too many echoes of it, really.

Interview for TV Guide, May 5th, 2001

#interviewers try not to ask paul extremely invasive questions challenge #Your mom and your wife both died young of breast cancer. Thoughts? #like for fucks sake #anyway #the 40 winks story is really sad #btw I also think the fact that his mom didn’t live to see him suceed as a musician really got to him #paul mccartney #linda mccartney #mary mccartney #the beatles #beatles #my quotes