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.' Paul Weller More Quotes by Paul Weller More Quotes From Paul Weller I'm so lucky, I'm just really grateful for what I've got around me - children and my wife and everything else. Paul Weller grateful wife children 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? Paul Weller clothes stuff culture 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. Paul Weller taught want kids 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. Paul Weller jobs moving thinking 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 elegance states culture 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. Paul Weller ensemble pieces voice You do your runway show, and it's all over the Internet before I see anything on there. Paul Weller runway internet shows It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus. Paul Weller clothes song needs 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. Paul Weller wells want thinking I'd like to think I've left something in the world. Without in any way trying to be morbid, but life is very short, and I'd like to think I'd leave some body of work that would inspire other musicians long after I've gone. Paul Weller inspire long thinking I get bored quickly. I kind of take my hat off to bands who have been around for a long time and still do the same thing, because it's hard to keep a band together for decades. But I couldn't do that. I couldn't play the same songs night after night or just trade on my past glories, because it wouldn't interest me as a person. Paul Weller song night past When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it. Paul Weller records player age 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 if-i-stay home night 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 different song thinking 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 honest sometimes believe "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 writing mean book 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 like-you people thinking 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 done age thinking I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go? Where can I take this?' From painters to photographers - anything creative in the arts - if you're a true artist, I think you'll always look to do something else. 'Where else can I go with it?' Do you know what I mean? Paul Weller mean art moving It's always good to play New York. The Apollo is a great gig. I loved that. Paul Weller apollo new-york play
