“I play out my role, I've even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I'm beaten.” KnowsPlayHelpingRolesWalkingBeaten Author:Paul Weller
“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
“The whole nostalgia thing, and just sticking with what you always liked and what you know and not taking a chance on something or expanding. I think especially after a certain age.” ThinkingKnowsWholeAgeCertainChanceNostalgiaExpanding 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
“It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus.” KnowsNeedsSongClothesBoringStimulus Author:Paul Weller
“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.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingImportantJobsMovingClothesExcitedEnjoyment Author:Paul Weller
“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.” KnowsYearsAmericaGuyAsksNamesRecordsSeeingRootsOriginalsGreenNotesBritishStoresBrownInterpretationPeterMacsRecord StoresFleetwood Mac Author:Paul Weller
“The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.” PeopleKnowsFeelsStyleBandDisagreeCouncilJamMisinterpretedGood Bands Author:Paul Weller
