Paul Weller Quotes

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• People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from
• I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.
• When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little…
• Life is a drink and you get drunk when you're young.
• 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…
• No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.
• I've always liked my clothes, even before I could properly afford them. Clothes for me were never a cloak, a cover. They were how I…
• I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
• I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.
• In all honesty, I don't know what one song can change.
• The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white…
• There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them.
• 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…
• I'm so lucky, I'm just really grateful for what I've got around me - children and my wife and everything else.
• If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.
• I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.
• I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost.
• 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.
• There are areas of music that I've never been to before, so that's always nice thing to have in life. That there are other areas…
• I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.

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