Paul Weller Quotes
Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.
No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.
I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.
Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.
I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.
I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.
I don't like to get pigeonholed. I don't like it when people think they have you sewn up.
Why not go down the pub? A guy once came up to me at a gig and asked me if I had MySpace. I said, 'This is my space, and you're invading it.'
People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.
I suppose it's nice to have some surprise in life and to surprise yourself in life and see what else you can do.
I look for that stimulation constantly. I'm looking for inspiration and stimulation. Not bored with what we've done.
I play out my role, I've even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I'm beaten.
There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some sort of drone instrument, and there's always percussion.
I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere.
I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
There's such a wealth of great music, clothes or whatever. There is so much great stuff out there, that why would you not still be interested if you've grown up in that kind of culture?
I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.
I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really.
It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus.
I still want to do what I want to do, but we also have to think about some sense of protecting the business that's out there as well.
When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.
There's this British elegance that we, at times, have really missed in the States. We've always been more of a sportswear culture.
I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.
It's important to know all those things, but part of our jobs is to move people along and to make people excited to buy music or buy clothes, and give them enjoyment, I think, too.
I'm so lucky, I'm just really grateful for what I've got around me - children and my wife and everything else.
There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them.
Even somebody like The Black Keys or Royal Blood, they all have this original roots base to what they do.
I've always liked my clothes, even before I could properly afford them. Clothes for me were never a cloak, a cover. They were how I chose to express myself.
I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a pretty good thing for me.
You can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well.
So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single, not the nurturing of artists and that kind of thing.
