I'm Paul Muldoon, a poet who over the past several years has had the good fortune to record

hours of conversations with one of the world's greatest songwriters, Sir Paul McCartney.

The result is our new podcast, McCartney, A Life in lyrics.

Listen to McCartney, A Life in lyrics on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever

you get your podcasts.

I don't normally do personal commentary on closing remarks. I guess I do, but I just want

to say to everybody, sometimes the best policy is to shut a chill damn mouth. I don't know what

it is in our society today that's got everybody thinking that they just got to be open,

sharing, letting it out, being more transparent. Look, there's a difference between being

authentic and being transparent and being foolish. I mean, look, man, I wish everybody

would just take a little bit more time and consideration and way out why you're sharing

all your private information with everybody. Think of the impact sometimes that it leaves.

You know, look, man, I guess we're all responsible for being a remote, oh, excuse me,

we're all responsible for being a role model to somebody. All of us are. I don't know anybody

who's exempt from that. Now, you can say you don't want to be a role model, but all of us have

a role to play in somebody's life. It doesn't, you don't have to be famous on an athlete to be a

role model. Somebody's patterning themselves after you. Somebody younger is looking up at you.

Well, if that's the case, then we do all have a sense of responsibility to kind of monitor the

things we say. Now, look, are we all going to make mistakes? Of course. Are we all going to say

some things we wish we could take back? I'm pretty sure I've done it myself over and over and

over again. I can't count the things I wish I could get a redo in, but you can't.

But sometimes, man, when you're talking and you're sharing, you just got to be understanding,

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