Sir Paul McCartney: 'Making music now is luxurious, but it's not very productive'

Music icon Sir Paul McCartney has revealed that making music was easier years ago because now the changes in technology with programs such as Pro Tools means that people take a sloppy approach to creating a song or laying down vocal lines.

Speaking to BBC News' Click, the legend admitted that there's a luxury in music production now that wasn't always there and he doesn't believe it makes for productive work:

"The process of making the music, I do [go] on sometimes to young bands, younger people I'm working with, and say it was kind of easier [before]."

"Everyone who made records used this routine. 10.30, be ready to go. 1.30, we expect you to have finished two songs, mixed, taped, done. You go home at the end of the day and you would have accomplished four songs. And I look back at them now, and it's 'Michelle', it's 'Nowhere Man', it's 'Yesterday'. It's songs that have lasted."

"I really advise kids now: 'You have to write the song before you go in.' Sounds obvious but people don't do this so much these days. They go in and say, 'That was a good bit. Get that on the ProTools'. It's just a new way of working, which is much more luxurious, but I don't think it's productive."

Watch the music video for McCartney, Rihanna and Kanye West's 'FourFiveSeconds' below: