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.
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 don't like being told what to do.
I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.
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 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.
I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough.
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.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.
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?
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.
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.
Out of the six of us, I am the quietest.
Paul also gets embarrassed when singing on his own, with new songs, for the first time. He shouldn't, but he does.
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.
The gap from our first meeting to living together was less than a year. He proposed, though I am too embarrassed to say how.
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.
We are really happy. But I am like anyone - no one knows how long marriage is going to last.
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?
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 have lasted this long close together, so we must have something going for each other.
We might plan a trip to London. Then it is a sunny day and we want to stay at home.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.
Any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries that sponsor terrorism to remain as members, such as Cuba, is not real reform. And in the past, countries such as Libya, Iran and Syria have participated on this council.
As the father of five, I wake up every morning thanking God for the health and happiness of my children. Not all parents are as fortunate.
Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.
Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.
In my home State of Texas, the Port of Houston operates as the United States' top port for foreign tonnage and our second largest for total tonnage, so I know how important this bill is for the protection of the American people.
In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.
In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this horrible disease consumes the life of an innocent child.
Iran continues to threaten us today. There is another gathering storm brewing in the Middle East. Through Hezbollah and groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Iran today is the global epicenter of terrorism and its largest supporter.
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.
Meth is too easy to make, and unfortunately right now all the ingredients need to make this highly addictive drug are legal and readily available to those who want to cook it up and sell it to our children.
Methamphetamine production and its abuse are serious problems across our nation and a clear and present danger to our children.
On this National Agriculture Day, when we all should be taking time to thank and pay tribute to America's farmers, ranchers and their families who produce the food for our tables, we are finding those same people in dire need of our help and support.
Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies.
Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee.
Peacekeeping funds are an important and necessary part of what America does for humanity and the rest of the world.
Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry.
Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities.
The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.
There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.
Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.
We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.
We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.
A far more sensible policy in this country, in my view, this wouldn't require a political revolution. It should be simply one station per owner.
Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?
And it has produced the system where a number of very large corporations and wealthy investors have made enormous amounts of money using public property, monopoly rights to public property, and haven't had to pay a penny in return for it to the American people. They get it for free.
And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country.
And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.
Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you.
Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying.
Because what's going on now, and this applies mostly to television stations in the largest markets too, but TV stations basically are now the primary receivers of campaign spending.
But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.
But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.
If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters.
If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms with the local affiliates in the largest market in your area. I mean you don't want to antagonize them.
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.
Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun.
Once you got the license, a chimpanzee can make money running one of these stations.
One side, profits go up, they own more and more, but the diversity, interest, creativity and quality of the programming goes way down.
One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.
Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.
So if you're thinking about changing democracy, these guys stop every effort for free spending, to eliminate TV ads.
So it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And that's where cases tend to be made politically.
So it's not like anyone can start and enter this market. There is strictly a limit on how many stations you can have.
So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country.
So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.
So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.
The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention.
The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.
The costs of radio, the physical costs of putting out a good signal are ridiculously low, which is why micro-radio is so wonderful.
The majority of this money goes to pay commercial broadcasters to run these ads, these TV spots, which are now the whole basis of campaigning.
The news is often just about who's ads are running, about what the ads say, not much about what the candidates say.
The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.
The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.
The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio; in fact it pays the bills.
The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.
Well, the reason why protesting the NAB is important is that they're the primary recipients of corporate welfare.
What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly.
When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.
When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.
Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.
You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right.
Linda often stated that she never used artificial light when taking photographs.
Linda: 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.
The song Linda, by Jack Lawrence, was written for her.
"The Linda McCartney Story" was a television movie dedicated to her life in 2000. Linda was played by Elizabeth Mitchell.
She had three children with Paul McCartney: Mary, Stella and James.
Linda's mother, Louise, died in a plane crash when Linda was 20 years old.
She started her own line of vegetarian TV dinners.
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