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 possibility endless
I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.
thinking trying ears
I try to have an open ear, but at the end, it would never change direction to where I think I should go. Because if I listened to everybody else, they're thinking about what's right now or what was the last thing - they're not thinking about what's next.
style belief action
I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action.
pops
Nothing wrong with pop!
country song kids
Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.
stars dad thinking
A lot of young artists and musicians that we work with, you think they're gonna want to come in and buy the rock star-looking leather jacket - whatever it is that you think they're gonna want. They all want a suit. They want a tuxedo jacket, they want a suit. They don't want to look like their dad in it, but they want a suit.
botox
I've not had Botox, no.
mind age different
In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.
encouraging nice people
It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it's encouraging.
fashion internet
It's a global fashion thing; because of the Internet it has gotten really small. It's cluttered, but it's gotten small.
song unique zombie
The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time.
artist age want
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 to do that.
body painter
When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.
past paris people
In the past we used to come over to see what was going on in London or Paris or Milan or wherever - it's pretty much the same stuff everywhere [now], and people are wearing the same things, because it's all instantaneous with the Internet.