“I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go? Where can I take this?' From painters to photographers - anything creative in the arts - if you're a true artist, I think you'll always look to do something else. 'Where else can I go with it?' Do you know what I mean?” IfsThinkingKnowsLooksMeanPersonsArtMovingArtistCreativePhotographerPainterDo You KnowCreative PersonTrue Artists Author:Paul Weller
“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.” KindTodayArtistNextIndustryPopsDrivenNurturingPop MusicMusic Industry Author:Paul Weller
“There's always peripheral things that you like that you don't know, but starting with whatever his British influences are, are some of my favourite artists, and the American things are what I grew up on as well. In the end, for me, it's those foundations of the music business - those things that are a lot of the foundations of what music today is. You can hear a bit of all of those things that we talk about in almost all music today.” KnowsWellsEndsTodayArtistBitsInfluenceGrewGrew UpFoundationStartingBritishFavouriteMusic Business Author:Paul Weller
“I'm definitely obsessed about artists and the type of music and the playing and the tone and all that kind of thing - I'm not obsessed about what the best Beatles album is. I just think if The Beatles are great, they're great.” IfsThinkingKindArtistTypeAlbumsObsessedTone Author:Paul Weller
“I could say that 'Exile On Main Street' was my favourite or whatever, but I'm more about the songs and the artists and the sound that they bring.” ArtistSongSoundStreetsFavouriteExileMain Street Author:Paul Weller
“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.” ThinkingWantLooksYoungArtistStarsRocksDadMusicianSuitsRock StarJacketsLeatherYoung ArtistsLeather JacketsTuxedos Author:Paul Weller
“An artist or writer always has to move forward. All the time you're trying to improve yourself, or at least look at ways to improve things or make things better. I'm not really one to harp on previous records. I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.” TryingMovingArtistMoving ForwardLooking ForwardImproving Yourself Author:Paul Weller
“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.” WantAgeArtistComfortableSticksGroove Author:Paul Weller
