236 Quotes by Paul Weller

"I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do."

"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."

"I was such a massive fan of all the '60s pop bands, but if I had to single out one band, it would definitely be The Beatles."

"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."

"I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s."

"Being a musician is a noble profession."

"I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country."

"You do your runway show, and it's all over the Internet before I see anything on there."

"I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost."

"Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important."