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
thinking want wells
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.
jobs moving thinking
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.
song clothes needs
It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus.
looking-forward always-looking-forward
I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.
writing thinking people
People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from
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.
thinking firsts
I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost.
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.