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Paul McCartney has described his divorce as like "going through hell".
The 65-year-old ex-Beatle insisted he would keep his dignity by not speaking about the break-up, but admitted: "Going through a divorce is a very painful thing."
He told the Radio Times magazine: "As Winston Churchill once said: 'If you're going through hell, keep going!' The only solution is to remain dignified. If I don't keep a silence about it, I lose this idea of being dignified.
"But I've a wonderful baby. She's a great joy to me, as are my elder children, so I'm a lucky man."
McCartney spent eight hours in court last week with Heather Mills, the mother of his three-year-old daughter Beatrice, without coming to an agreement.
McCartney and Mills, 39, who wed in 2002 before splitting four years later, were reported to be disagreeing over the music legend's demands for a confidentiality settlement.
But reports over the weekend said the pair would sign a £50m (€71.9m) deal by Christmas, with a deal hammered out in November, for the sake of their daughter.
In today's interview, McCartney denied he has been dating Renee Zellweger, Rosanna Arquette and Christie Brinkley.
"Well, I went on holiday in America and went to concerts - James Taylor, Tom Petty - and there were lots of well known people," he said.
"And I stopped by to say 'Hi' to Christie Brinkley and, unbeknownst to me, someone took a picture. And suddenly everybody's going: 'Ooooh Paul, I don't know if you should marry her!'
"I went on holiday. I met a lot of people. I started a lot of rumours. But there's no truth to any of them," he said.
McCartney described the Queen as a "babe", saying: "I've got a lot of time for the Queen. She's fun, she's funny, she's amazing.
"The Queen's a babe!"
He added: "I know what fame is. But she knows what real fame is. I remember when we were touring Britain - about '64, I suppose - and we were in one of those line-ups and she was staying at Windsor.
"And she said: 'Where are you playing tomorrow evening?' And I said: 'Slough, ma'am'. And she said (claps hands excitedly): 'Oh, that's just near us!'"
McCartney, who admitted to looking himself up on the internet, said he was glad The Beatles had never reunited, adding: "The potential disappointment of coming on and not being as good as The Beatles had been... that was a risk we shouldn't take."
McCartney also told the magazine: "It's been a difficult time. But music is a great healer. Music is the therapy for me. In fact, going through difficulties has only concentrated my desire to make good music."
Asked what it would be like if the Beatles reformed, he added: "That's the 'what if' syndrome and I don't go there ... but since you're leading me down that flowery path, we could imagine that John would be this fantastic elder statesman, very much in command of his lifestyle, I'd be alongside him singing magnificently; George would be playing like an angel on his guitar, we'd be gelling, sound like nothing anyone's ever heard before with all the power of modern amplification.
"And, behind us, would be the world's greatest drummer. And it'd be fandabidozi!"
* The full story is in the Radio Times magazine, out tomorrow.
Paul McCartney has described his divorce as like "going through hell".
The 65-year-old ex-Beatle insisted he would keep his dignity by not speaking about the break-up, but admitted: "Going through a divorce is a very painful thing."
He told the Radio Times magazine: "As Winston Churchill once said: 'If you're going through hell, keep going!' The only solution is to remain dignified. If I don't keep a silence about it, I lose this idea of being dignified.
"But I've a wonderful baby. She's a great joy to me, as are my elder children, so I'm a lucky man."
McCartney spent eight hours in court last week with Heather Mills, the mother of his three-year-old daughter Beatrice, without coming to an agreement.
McCartney and Mills, 39, who wed in 2002 before splitting four years later, were reported to be disagreeing over the music legend's demands for a confidentiality settlement.
But reports over the weekend said the pair would sign a £50m (€71.9m) deal by Christmas, with a deal hammered out in November, for the sake of their daughter.
In today's interview, McCartney denied he has been dating Renee Zellweger, Rosanna Arquette and Christie Brinkley.
"Well, I went on holiday in America and went to concerts - James Taylor, Tom Petty - and there were lots of well known people," he said.
"And I stopped by to say 'Hi' to Christie Brinkley and, unbeknownst to me, someone took a picture. And suddenly everybody's going: 'Ooooh Paul, I don't know if you should marry her!'
"I went on holiday. I met a lot of people. I started a lot of rumours. But there's no truth to any of them," he said.
McCartney described the Queen as a "babe", saying: "I've got a lot of time for the Queen. She's fun, she's funny, she's amazing.
"The Queen's a babe!"
He added: "I know what fame is. But she knows what real fame is. I remember when we were touring Britain - about '64, I suppose - and we were in one of those line-ups and she was staying at Windsor.
"And she said: 'Where are you playing tomorrow evening?' And I said: 'Slough, ma'am'. And she said (claps hands excitedly): 'Oh, that's just near us!'"
McCartney, who admitted to looking himself up on the internet, said he was glad The Beatles had never reunited, adding: "The potential disappointment of coming on and not being as good as The Beatles had been... that was a risk we shouldn't take."
McCartney also told the magazine: "It's been a difficult time. But music is a great healer. Music is the therapy for me. In fact, going through difficulties has only concentrated my desire to make good music."
Asked what it would be like if the Beatles reformed, he added: "That's the 'what if' syndrome and I don't go there ... but since you're leading me down that flowery path, we could imagine that John would be this fantastic elder statesman, very much in command of his lifestyle, I'd be alongside him singing magnificently; George would be playing like an angel on his guitar, we'd be gelling, sound like nothing anyone's ever heard before with all the power of modern amplification.
"And, behind us, would be the world's greatest drummer. And it'd be fandabidozi!"
* The full story is in the Radio Times magazine, out tomorrow.
