Paul Weller Quotes
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Music is the most natural thing in the world. When we go to a gig and we all like it and we share that experience, it's the same sense of communion as a sacred rite in Borneo or wherever it may be; it just gets dressed up different. Its good for the soul.
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Getting to No. 1 makes everyone feel better; of course it does. But it's swings and roundabouts with these things. Sometimes you make a great record, and it clicks with people. And other times it passes them by; there's nothing you can do. It's still the same record.
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I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just lazy journalism, but people start to accept it. If people spent an hour in my car driving around London and listening to the stuff I listen to, they'd hear some interesting stuff.
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Some people might say my life is in a rut, but I'm quite happy with what I've got.
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I'm sure there's a subconscious 'go for it' thing with turning 50. You want to do as much as possible and there are thoughts of how little time we have on the planet. For a lot of musicians in their 50s, the best days are behind them. I'd like to try and show that there is a future.
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Those braying sheep on my TV screen -Make this boy shout! Make this boy scream!
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I'm always looking for something. Not in an unhappy way. I just like to try different things. I don't want to be morbid, but I'm not getting any younger.
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I'm so lucky, I'm just really grateful for what I've got around me - children and my wife and everything else.
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The fingers feel the lines, they prod the space - your ageing face,The face that was once so beautiful, is still there but unrecognisable...
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The more I see - the more I know,The more I know, the less I understand.
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Led Zeppelin would never have reformed if he or Jimmy Page were bald.
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Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.
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I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.
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Is happiness real?Or am I so jadedI can't see or feel - like a man been tainted.Numbed by the effect - aware of the museToo in touch with myself - I light the fuse.