People say you make your best work when you're in despair and all that, and at your lowest - but for me,… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Playing music is a lifetime's work. And if you want to carry on with it, you have to try to better yourself.… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I come from a time when every kid dressed up. Everybody. If you didn't, you wouldn't be able to hang out. It… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Playing live is what it's all about for me. It's cathartic, it's emotional, it's about communing with people. The way you feel… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm not one of… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I'm sure there's a subconscious 'go for it' thing with turning 50. You want to do as much as possible and there… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I hear an album so many times during the course of making it that when I've just finished it, I don't want… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
The Jam went through a phase of wearing satin jackets. But that was pre-getting signed and making it, when we were still… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Right from the start with music, I was like, 'I'm just going to do this, and I don't care about anything else.… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Getting to No. 1 makes everyone feel better; of course it does. But it's swings and roundabouts with these things. Sometimes you… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
It's quite liberating to get to a certain age, 'cos you're not chasing number one hits or trying to be an international… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
When I was a kid in Woking, every week you went to the football dance, and every week the top kids would… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Weller Copy Share
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… — Paul Weller Copy Share
People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git. — Paul Weller Copy Share
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… — Paul Weller Copy Share
There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want… — Paul Weller Copy Share
Young people can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues… — Paul Weller Copy Share
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… — Paul Weller Copy Share
No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course. — Paul Weller Copy Share
I wear jeans and a T-shirt sometimes. I just like clothes - since the first time I can remember, like age ten or eleven;… — Paul Weller Copy Share
I come from a time when every kid dressed up. Everybody. If you didn't, you wouldn't be able to hang out. It was very… — Paul Weller Copy Share
I don't like to get pigeonholed. I don't like it when people think they have you sewn up. — Paul Weller Copy Share
I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service. — Paul Weller Copy Share
There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them. — Paul Weller Copy Share
