The June 4th issue of The New Yorker has a remarkable profile of Paul McCartney by John Colapinto, “When I’m Sixty-Four.”
The article is not online, but you could spend $4.50 in worse ways than to pick up a copy of the magazine.
“That’s exactly it, and I am amazed,” he said. “How could I not be? Unless I just totally blocked it off. There were four people in the Beatles, and I was one of them. There were two people in the Lennon-McCartney songwriting team, and I was one of them. I mean, right there, that’s enough for anyone’s life. And there was one guy who wrote ‘Yesterday,’ and I was him. One guy who wrote ‘Let It Be,’ ‘Fool on the Hill,’ ‘Lady Madonna’—and I was him, too. All of these things would be enough for anyone’s life. So to be involved in all of them is pretty surprising. And you have to pinch yourself. That’s what that song [“That Was Me”] is about.”