Paul Weller Quotes & Sayings

“You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.”

“I'd heard a lot of Motown and Stax when I was a kid, but the more well-known end of it. On Jam tours, we had a DJ called Ady Croasdell who ran a '60s club. He turned me on to underground stuff and what people call northern soul. It just blew my mind.”

“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.”

“Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.”

“People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.”

“'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.'”

“I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.”

“I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I don't necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.”

“Led Zeppelin would never have reformed if he or Jimmy Page were bald.”

“I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.”