Paul Weller
Paul Weller
John William "Paul" Weller, Jr.is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Weller achieved fame with the punk rock/new wave/mod revival band The Jam. He had further success with the blue-eyed soul music of The Style Council, before establishing himself as a solo artist in 1991...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth25 May 1958
play roles helping
I play out my role, I've even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I'm beaten...
years names roots
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 Mac - the original Peter Green Fleetwood Mac, Saveloy Brown - like British blues interpretations of it,' which then, when I started the liner notes and seeing all these names, I was like, 'Who's Willie Dixon?' Then I go to the record store and ask the guy there and he goes, 'Oh, you don't know anything.' And so, to me, that's the root of most of it anyway.
artist today next
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.
noble musician noble-profession
Being a musician is a noble profession.
internet runway shows
You do your runway show, and it's all over the Internet before I see anything on there.
internals
It's just something internal that says, 'I've got to do this now. This is what I'm doing now.'
lying heart follow-your-heart
You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.
thinking people want
I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.
want impossible mortals
I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.
thinking sneakers sweat
Today, we're even into the whole sweat thing. They'll wear a [suit] jacket like this, but they'll wear it with sweat pants and sneakers. But I do think there is every generation - and it won't be as big as it was when you and I were those ages - but every generation all of a sudden experiences that they want to dress up.
playing-music chance wanted
I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.
inspiration bored looks
I look for that stimulation constantly. I'm looking for inspiration and stimulation. Not bored with what we've done.
people style jam
The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.
clothes stuff culture
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?