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" May 11 2010 -- The Times (UK)
I'm finally learning to live with fame, says Sir Paul McCartney
To millions of Beatles fanatics around the world, Sir Paul McCartney is the patron saint of pop music. But yesterday he revealed that he shuns advances from fans, saying that he refuses to sign autographs in public.
Speaking on the Today programme on Radio 4, Sir Paul, 67, said that he found fame pretty annoying and turned down approaches for his autograph while in restaurants or out shopping, offering instead to shake hands.
He said: "The weight of fame can get pretty annoying. But you know what I do now? I have rules, I've finally grown up and I finally realise I've got rights. So people will come up to me in a restaurant and say, 'Can I have your autograph' and I say, 'I'm really sorry but I don't do that when I'm eating. I hope you understand. I'll shake your hand and I'll talk to you.'
"Because I'm quite happy to talk to people on a one-to-one human basis, but the minute they turn me into this celebrity I'm pretending not to be for that minute, I sort of say, 'No I'm not going to do that'. Most, in fact 99.9 per cent of people, are very understanding because they understand privacy."
Sir Paul said that he also shrugged off the attention of fans while shopping. Recounting a visit to B&Q, the DIY chain, he said: "Shopping is another. I say, 'I'm really sorry, I'm shopping and you know what guys are like at shopping, not very good. I'm looking for some nails and they've got to be 3in long for the job that I'm doing, and there's no way I'm going to find them when I'm chatting to you and having my photo taken'."
He said that he went to the shops by himself, because "people don't expect me to do that". He said: "I've always been very keen on doing that. Fame, is it a weight? I think it can be if you get the limos and the security and ten people go with you everywhere, but I don't do that.
"I will just go shopping or go to the movies on my own, and I like that. It's very much a balancing part of my life because the next day I might be playing to 50,000 people in Mexico."
The musician, who appeared on the programme to promote an essay he has written about Meat- Free Mondays, a campaign to urge people to go vegetarian one day a week, cautioned against seeking fame. In a veiled attack on those who appear on reality television shows such as The X Factor, he said: "When we started out in the old days, you were looking to be famous via being very talented and working hard and coming up through the ranks.
"Now people are looking at what's sold to them. It's this sort of modern package, which is a little bit scary."
Asked if fame was a weight, he said: "To some degree, but it's a weight I'm happy to carry. I spent so much of my life trying to get famous, and it's a little bit unseemly once you get famous to say, 'Oh, I don't want to be here'."
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