Where I come from, you don’t really talk about how much you’re earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I’m certainly not going to tell the world. I’m doing well.

McCartney frames wealth as a matter of upbringing and class-coded discretion rather than celebrity spectacle. By invoking his parents’ marriage—where even spouses did not discuss earnings—he presents privacy about money as a learned moral norm, not evasiveness. The remark also functions as a refusal of the public’s demand for financial transparency from famous people, while still acknowledging success (“I’m doing well”) in a modest, non-quantified way. Implicitly, it contrasts working- and lower-middle-class British reticence about income with the modern media economy that treats personal finances as entertainment and a measure of worth.