Paul Weller
It's always good to play New York. The Apollo is a great gig. I loved that.Collection: New York
I think part of what we do is there is a bit of dandy influence, always, or a little sprinkle of it. Not literal Savile Row dandy, but there's a bit of sartorial dandiness in everything that we do - every collection that we do.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Artist
It's just something internal that says, 'I've got to do this now. This is what I'm doing now.'Collection: Internals
The way that house music has become so white and so sanitized over the decades and the fact it's still going on, well I think it's sad really, but at the time I really loved it. I loved all the black house music that was coming out of Chicago and New Jersey, which I just thought was really soulful.Collection: Thinking
If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60.Collection: Numbers
There are areas of music that I've never been to before, so that's always nice thing to have in life. That there are other areas you haven't been to. You haven't covered all the ground, and there's plenty more uncharted territory to cover as well.Collection: Nice
Young people can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well. They don't feel the need to own it. They certainly don't feel the need to pay for it. I'd have to save up for weeks to buy an album when I was a kid, and that made it even more great for me when I finally got that thing in my hand.Collection: Kids
You can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well.Collection: Night
If you're in music, you're in music, and if you're in music you just want to keep making records and playing. That's what it's about, isn't it? At least, that's what I always thought it was about, anyway.Collection: Records
The Beatles changed the world. They certainly changed my world, and many, many other individuals as well.Collection: World
I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous pieceCollection: Pieces
If we get through for two minutes only it will be a start!Collection: Two
I think the biggest influence for me is when I hear a great piece of music, whatever the style, I'm kind of inspired by that greatness and I'm inspired to try and obtain something that comes close to that greatness.Collection: Greatness
If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals.Collection: Crush
I only put an album out every two or three years.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Artist
I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just play the greatest hits, and their audience is happy to hear that as well, and that's fine, but it wouldn't please me. But it doesn't trouble me.Collection: Please Me
I have to do what I'm doing at the time. That's the most important thing. You might lose some people along the way, and you might gain other people on the way, that's just the way it is. But nevertheless, if you're driven by something, there is no argument about it; that's what you have to do.Collection: People
When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I’d write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little recess type thing, hardly a hallway, really, and I’d sit there writing songs with my guitar.Collection: Guitar