Of course I’m proud of what I’ve done, but I’m interested in what’s next. I want to be relevant now, in 2012. I’ve done my bit for the past. I’ve only ever been about what’s next, really, and I’ll be that way until I keel over. – Paul Weller
When I listen to a record, or when I’m making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble. – Paul Weller
I hear an album so many times during the course of making it that when I’ve just finished it, I don’t want to hear it again. After you’ve taken a little bit of time away from it, you can come back to it, which can be scary. I’m happy with ‘Sonik Kicks,’ man. – Paul Weller
I’ve always had self-belief, though my sensitive side has never been fully appreciated. For every ‘Down in the Tube Station at Midnight,’ I’ve written an ‘English Rose.’ People forget. – Paul Weller
I’m very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music. – Paul Weller
I’m so lucky, I’m just really grateful for what I’ve got around me – children and my wife and everything else. – Paul Weller
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. – Paul Weller
I want to see where and how far I can go as an artist. I look back and see what I’ve done, and I want to do as much as I can in my lifetime. I love doing it. If I didn’t have that passion or love for it, I wouldn’t do it. – Paul Weller
Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I’d sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person. – Paul Weller
I’m sure there’s a subconscious ‘go for it’ thing with turning 50. You want to do as much as possible and there are thoughts of how little time we have on the planet. For a lot of musicians in their 50s, the best days are behind them. I’d like to try and show that there is a future. – Paul Weller
I kept the first Rickenbacker I ever got, a little short-scale John Lennon-type model. And I’ve got a couple of 12-string models, which are really nice, and I’ve got a Pete Townshend model, which Pete gave me a few years ago. But that’s about it. – Paul Weller
When I’m dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don’t wanna get ideas above my station, but why shouldn’t this be comparable? 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. – Paul Weller
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. – Paul Weller
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. – Paul Weller
I think I come from a time when all the artists I grew up with and I loved always used to try and push the boundaries, and there doesn’t seem so much of that, really. – Paul Weller