Paul McCartney

I must say, I never realized it's been that long between attempts.

But one of the nice things about this kind of recording...

as opposed to in the old days, we pretty much had to just write the song, learn it, record it, thank you, good night.

But this way, you can mess around and you can try various things.

So I know there was a trumpet solo.

But I think we just decided to leave that off the record and just replace it with guitar.

Well, I met him in L.A.

My manager said to me, there's this guy called Andrew Watt.

I said, yeah, I've heard of him.

I liked some of the music he'd done, but I didn't know him.

He said, would you like to meet him?

I said, yeah, sure.

I said, I'll just go and have a cup of tea or something.

But I didn't particularly think we'll work together.

I thought, let's just see if we like each other.

So I went over to his studio, which was in the basement of Charlie Chaplin's old house.

And we're sitting around chatting.

I started to show a couple of ideas and just in general conversation.

He followed on, and so we just were sitting there throwing ideas around, and we were writing the first song on the album.

That was it.