#we generally associate this whole spiel with Paul rationalizing post-John’s death

[thestarsarecool]

“I’ve no idea if John wants to do anything again. I haven’t spoken to him for quite a while because he’s been keeping himself quiet.

But, if you think about it, there's a fella whose father left home when he was a little kid, who lived with his aunt and his uncle. Then his uncle died, then his mother remarried and used to come to visit him but lived with another man. And while she was coming to visit him one night, when he was 16, she got knocked down by a car and killed. So that guy has grown up in a world where basically he's never had any family.

He then got married to Cynthia but he was in the middle of all the Sixties dope and everything and he never really got with that family.

And he's now married again to Yoko, who, for him, is the love of his life. He believes he's found it and they now have a son. And I think he's just taking every second that's left to him to enjoy that —and there's nothing wrong with that.”

— Paul McCartney, Liverpool Echo, December 4th, 1979