I don't like to get pigeonholed. I don't like it when people think they have you sewn up. Paul Weller More Quotes by Paul Weller More Quotes From Paul Weller 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 iconsgenerationscampaigns I only put an album out every two or three years. Paul Weller albumstwoyears The whole nostalgia thing, and just sticking with what you always liked and what you know and not taking a chance on something or expanding. I think especially after a certain age. Paul Weller chanceagethinking 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. Paul Weller nextartisttoday I'm definitely obsessed about artists and the type of music and the playing and the tone and all that kind of thing - I'm not obsessed about what the best Beatles album is. I just think if The Beatles are great, they're great. Paul Weller albumsartistthinking I just pretty much love from 1966 to 1972, that's my time. I think everything that needs to be said was said within that time. That's just a subjective thing, as well. Paul Weller saidneedsthinking In my world [of fashion] there's more things that kind of affect it. There's the retailers we do business with, our own stores, my merchandising team... Everybody has opinions, and so you definitely have to filter through a lot. Paul Weller filtersfashionteam I saw an interview with Keith Richards. He said, 'How else could a kid in Dartford suddenly connect with and understand what Muddy Waters is singing?' There's a cultural difference, but there's just something in that music that subconsciously or internally you just understand; it just makes sense. Paul Weller differenceswaterkids I try to have an open ear, but at the end, it would never change direction to where I think I should go. Because if I listened to everybody else, they're thinking about what's right now or what was the last thing - they're not thinking about what's next. Paul Weller earstryingthinking I could say that 'Exile On Main Street' was my favourite or whatever, but I'm more about the songs and the artists and the sound that they bring. Paul Weller artistsoundsong 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 stylepersonalitythinking 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 dadstarsthinking 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 internetfashion 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 jeansjapanlittles The '40s were quite austere and super glamorous. Paul Weller glamorous 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 sprinkleslittlesthinking Even somebody like The Black Keys or Royal Blood, they all have this original roots base to what they do. Paul Weller keysrootsblood When you look at so much of what we all love, there's either soul-based to it, or it's the blues. It's really the beginnings of any kind of music. It really is; it all starts there. Because after that, it's music of the moment. Paul Weller kindsoullooks There's always peripheral things that you like that you don't know, but starting with whatever his British influences are, are some of my favourite artists, and the American things are what I grew up on as well. In the end, for me, it's those foundations of the music business - those things that are a lot of the foundations of what music today is. You can hear a bit of all of those things that we talk about in almost all music today. Paul Weller foundationartisttoday It's just something internal that says, 'I've got to do this now. This is what I'm doing now.' Paul Weller internals
