Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

McCartney frames his musicianship as something innate yet nurtured, suggesting that his later achievements were not a sudden discovery but a continuity from childhood. By crediting both parents, he emphasizes the role of family culture—music as a domestic language—rather than portraying genius as isolated or self-made. The retrospective tone (“Looking back”) also implies that early influences can be recognized only in hindsight, once a life’s trajectory is clear. In a broader sense, the remark fits McCartney’s public narrative of Liverpool working-class roots: creativity emerging from ordinary home life, where informal musicality (singing, playing piano, listening) becomes the seedbed for professional artistry.