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
song honesty knows
In all honesty, I don't know what one song can change.
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.