Paul McCartney confesses: 'I have to relearn everything' before performing smash hits
According to Paul McCartney, there's nothing like writing songs — even though he may not remember how all of them go.
The Beatles icon told Al Roker on the "Today" show how he keeps track of all his hits and what's kept him in music all these years.
The 77-year-old admitted that when you've written as many songs as he has it's impossible to remember them all.
"Is it true that sometimes you have to relearn the older stuff?" Roker asked.
"Yeah, I have to relearn everything," McCartney said. "I've written an awful lot, so you can't retain them all. We go into rehearsal, and I learn them. 'Oh yeah, that's how it goes.' "
McCartney added his own songs often surprise him. "Sometimes when you're relearning them, do you kind of look and go, 'You know, this is pretty good?' " Roker wondered.
"I do," McCartney said. "I really do, you know. That's one of the joys of doing some of the old songs. And you say, 'Oh, that's clever. I wouldn't have done that.' "
Source: Charles Trepany/usatoday.com
