Latest Paul Weller Quotes from Interviews

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• I don't know if there's any formula. I'm not sure I believe in that, to be honest. I don't know if there's any rhyme or reason to music. Sometimes it hits and sometimes it doesn't, really.

  Paul Weller

  Believe, Honest, Sometimes

• 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. But also, for me, from the time I was like 10 years old, all I ever wanted to do was be in a band and make music. So to get the chance to do that, to live your dreams or wishes, I just seize it and try and run with it. I never sort of think, oh, the pressure, or it's too much. You're lucky to be doing it. It's a great gift to have, and I appreciate it.

  Paul Weller

  Running, Dream, Kids

• When recording, whatever you first think about, you come out with something totally different at the end of it. Whatever plans you have you throw away, because it's always going to end up sounding pretty different from what you initially thought of. I probably only had about five or six songs when I started, and it just sort of flowed from that.

  Paul Weller

  Song, Thinking, Different

• Music's totally eclectic now. I saw a DJ the other day, he was on Virgin radio over here, and he said he played "Going Underground", the Jam song, on his breakfast show. Then he got a text from some young kid asking if was a new band. I think a lot of people these days, younger people as well, are aware of all sorts of music, really. If you're into the Libertines you probably also have to be aware of the Beatles, or the Kinks. I think there's a better, possibly greater appreciation for all music, of all eras, I think.

  Paul Weller

  Song, Appreciation, Kids

• If you're in music, you're in music, and if you're in music you just want to keep making records and playing. That's what it's about, isn't it? At least, that's what I always thought it was about, anyway. I don't think I could bear years and years off. Perhaps in me older, older age, maybe I will, for physical reasons. But to me you've always got to keep proving yourself. I never want to just sit on me laurels. You have to keep forging, to prove yourself to yourself. I always think, every time I start a record, this could be the best thing I've ever done.

  Paul Weller

  Thinking, Age, Done

• I'd like to think that what I've written over the years and what I'm doing now means something to people. People in the street all the time are saying "love the new record" or "I love that record," this tune or that tune. It means an awful lot, or it's been a big part of their lives. As a songwriter, what else would you really want? You're trying to connect with people, people's emotions, and maybe say something about their lives or feelings. That's probably a good enough compliment to receive, really.

  Paul Weller

  Mean, Thinking, People

• An artist or writer always has to move forward. All the time you're trying to improve yourself, or at least look at ways to improve things or make things better. I'm not really one to harp on previous records. I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.

  Paul Weller

  Moving, Artist, Trying

• I love the Kinks, but I like all sorts of music. If I stay at home at night and play records, I just go through the whole spectrum, really. I just love music.

  Paul Weller

  Home, Night, If I Stay

• I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost. There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them. If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60. I don't know, that's a commercial thing, but just the fact that other people like you... there's no point in making music, otherwise. Otherwise you might as well make it in your bedroom and leave it there.

  Paul Weller

  Thinking, People, Like You

• "Ageism" or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. "Oh, they're too old to make films or write books." You know what I mean?

  Paul Weller

  Book, Mean, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

• A lot of young artists and musicians that we work with, you think they're gonna want to come in and buy the rock star-looking leather jacket - whatever it is that you think they're gonna want. They all want a suit. They want a tuxedo jacket, they want a suit. They don't want to look like their dad in it, but they want a suit.

  Paul Weller

  Stars, Dad, Thinking

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• For me, there's always an early-'70s sense. There's always a sprinkle of it - if I do it exactly like that, sometimes it becomes too costume-y or too thought out. But the influences are there, without a doubt, always, because to me, that was the part that I also felt was the most defining of my own personality and my own style, and I also think that it's timeless. You never look wrong.

  Paul Weller

  Thinking, Personality, Style

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• It's a global fashion thing; because of the Internet it has gotten really small. It's cluttered, but it's gotten small.

  Paul Weller

  Fashion, Internet

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• Today, we're even into the whole sweat thing. They'll wear a [suit] jacket like this, but they'll wear it with sweat pants and sneakers. But I do think there is every generation - and it won't be as big as it was when you and I were those ages - but every generation all of a sudden experiences that they want to dress up.

  Paul Weller

  Thinking, Sneakers, Sweat

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• If you take skinny jeans - skinny jeans didn't just happen in the US, they were happening in Japan, they were happening in the UK, they were happening everywhere. Some places a little faster than others. But, if we look at our best sellers in this store, they're the same best sellers that we have in the States.

  Paul Weller

  Jeans, Japan, Littles

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• In the past we used to come over to see what was going on in London or Paris or Milan or wherever - it's pretty much the same stuff everywhere [now], and people are wearing the same things, because it's all instantaneous with the Internet.

  Paul Weller

  Past, Paris, People

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• You do your runway show, and it's all over the Internet before I see anything on there.

  Paul Weller

  Internet, Runway, Shows

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• In the early-'60s, when you look at that period of time - up to the mod time - when everybody was wearing skinnier suits and skinny lapels and skinny ties - that came out of the States, and that was quite cool.

  Paul Weller

  Ties, Looks, Suits

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere.

  Paul Weller

  Fashion, Thinking, World

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• There's this British elegance that we, at times, have really missed in the States. We've always been more of a sportswear culture.

  Paul Weller

  Culture, Elegance, States

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• The '40s were quite austere and super glamorous.

  Paul Weller

  Glamorous

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• Our campaigns have always been based on what we consider music icons that transcend generations and they're not of the moment - they continue to evolve.

  Paul Weller

  Icons, Generations, Campaigns

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• I think part of what we do is there is a bit of dandy influence, always, or a little sprinkle of it. Not literal Savile Row dandy, but there's a bit of sartorial dandiness in everything that we do - every collection that we do.

  Paul Weller

  Thinking, Sprinkles, Littles

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it from Fleetwood Mac - the original Peter Green Fleetwood Mac, Saveloy Brown - like British blues interpretations of it,' which then, when I started the liner notes and seeing all these names, I was like, 'Who's Willie Dixon?' Then I go to the record store and ask the guy there and he goes, 'Oh, you don't know anything.' And so, to me, that's the root of most of it anyway.

  Paul Weller

  Years, Names, Roots

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• Even somebody like The Black Keys or Royal Blood, they all have this original roots base to what they do.

  Paul Weller

  Roots, Keys, Blood

  Source: www.clashmusic.com