Paul McCartney talks about the Beatles, what John Lennon would be doing now....

.... and domestic bliss with Heather and the baby they're expecting.

Well I actually think it's a Paul McCartney thing, because I always do 'after the Beatles'. So it was Wings and then solo stuff.

Heather and I are very excited.

- Paul McCartney on Heather's pregnancy

But the thing is, what I do is my songs out of the Beatles, the ones that I sang like Hey Jude and Let it Be.

I feel that in one way those are Beatles songs, which they are, and it was due to the Beatles that they were successful.

But in another way, because I wrote them, they're my songs.

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Just as if John had been here now, he would've been doing Strawberry Fields, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Nowhere Man, Day in the Life - you know, his selection. I do my selection.

So I do feel it's like a Paul McCartney tour yeah, but it means I'm very lucky - there's a lot of Beatles songs, a lot of Wings songs and a lot of my own….

You were a member of the Quarrymen, then the Beatles, then you went solo, then you were with Wings, then you went solo again. Which is the most enjoyable phase, is it now?

It really is very enjoyable now. I don't really like to think of any of them being more enjoyable than the other.

They're all different and they're each really enjoyable for different reasons.

When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.

So that, doing it for the first time was like "wow, really exciting." And then getting into the Beatles and that building into a phenomenon was like, "Oh my god, this is really exciting."

And then instead of just not doing anything, re-doing the whole thing with Wings and then that being a success, y'know, with Linda. That was really exciting, but in different ways.

And now, with this new band and the success we've had with this tour it's in a new way again.

So I just feel amazingly lucky to be part of all these different phases and still be loving it.

You've recently got married and I'm just wondering why you don't fancy being relaxed at home putting you feet up with the beautiful Heather. Drinking, eating, being kind of domestic bliss orientated….

Well I do fancy that, and I fancy her, and I fancy drinking and eating!

Second chance: Paul and his first wife Linda, who was also a member of Wings.

You know what? The truth is we actually do that quite a lot. We were in Dublin the night before last and Heather and I were out at a little restaurant last night. We went for a little bike ride during the day, we went for a little drive out in Dublin.

So I mean that's what you do when you're together and we do that on our days off. But every so often there's this little thing called a gig.

And I kind of enjoy it y'know, but mainly we're at home watching the TV and stuff. We have quite a long time off coming up now so we'll do a lot of that then.

But actually on this tour, you'd be surprised. In America we did three months, which is quite dotty. It's not like we're slaving away: we're down in Miami, we're on the beach, we're in a posh hotel in Miami for two days and then we do a show. So it's not a slog.

I know you don't want me to talk about this too much but congratulations, a dad at 60! How do you see the next five years mapping out? Because we are so excited.

Well I'm excited too. I never look forward and say this is how the next five years are going to be, because to tell you the truth I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here.

So I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.

Heather and I are very excited and we don't really want to add anything to that, but we're very, very happy about having a baby. It's lovely news.

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