Top 90 Paul Weller Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m always looking forward to what I’m doing now, and what’s ahead.”

— Paul Weller

2. “I’m still a mod, I’ll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.”

— Paul Weller

3. “I don’t feel old or young, I just am.”

— Paul Weller

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

— Paul Weller

5. “I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost.”

— Paul Weller

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

— Paul Weller

7. “You have to keep challenging yourself. I’ve always tried to do that, and I’m not saying I’ve always been successful. Maybe I’ve rewritten the same song; it’s inevitable, but I’ve always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can’t stick in your little comfort zone.”

— Paul Weller

8. “When you look at so much of what we all love, there’s either soul-based to it, or it’s the blues. It’s really the beginnings of any kind of music. It really is; it all starts there. Because after that, it’s music of the moment.”

— Paul Weller

9. “There’s more to distract people, isn’t there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.”

— Paul Weller

10. “Life is a drink and you get drunk when you’re young.”

— Paul Weller

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

— Paul Weller

12. “I love soul music, that’s my real love in life and in whatever shape or form it is.”

— Paul Weller

13. “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.”

— Paul Weller

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14. “I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It’s the way forward.”

— Paul Weller

15. “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

16. “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.”

— Paul Weller

17. “I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action.”

— Paul Weller

18. “No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That’s fair enough, isn’t it? Unless you’re a cowboy, of course.”

— Paul Weller

19. “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

20. “I saw an interview with Keith Richards. He said, ‘How else could a kid in Dartford suddenly connect with and understand what Muddy Waters is singing?’ There’s a cultural difference, but there’s just something in that music that subconsciously or internally you just understand; it just makes sense.”

— Paul Weller

21. “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.”

— Paul Weller

22. “I could write songs about politics, but I’m conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.”

— Paul Weller

23. “I play out my role, I’ve even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I’m beaten...”

— Paul Weller

24. “I wear jeans and a T-shirt sometimes. I just like clothes – since the first time I can remember, like age ten or eleven; I was just obsessed with music and clothes. Just like a lot of people in England from my generation.”

— Paul Weller

25. “The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff.”

— Paul Weller

26. “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.”

— Paul Weller

27. “The Beatles changed the world. They certainly changed my world, and many, many other individuals as well.”

— Paul Weller

28. “If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals...”

— Paul Weller

29. “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.”

— Paul Weller

30. “Even somebody like The Black Keys or Royal Blood, they all have this original roots base to what they do.”

— Paul Weller

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

— Paul Weller

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

— Paul Weller

33. “Sometimes you’re ahead of the game and sometimes people don’t get it and that’s just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.”

— Paul Weller

34. “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.”

— Paul Weller

35. “There’s this British elegance that we, at times, have really missed in the States. We’ve always been more of a sportswear culture.”

— Paul Weller

36. “There’s such a wealth of great music, clothes or whatever. There is so much great stuff out there, that why would you not still be interested if you’ve grown up in that kind of culture?”

— Paul Weller

37. “I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.”

— Paul Weller

38. “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.”

— Paul Weller

39. “I look for that stimulation constantly. I’m looking for inspiration and stimulation. Not bored with what we’ve done.”

— Paul Weller

40. “People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.”

— Paul Weller

41. “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

42. “In the early-’60s, when you look at that period of time – up to the mod time – when everybody was wearing skinnier suits and skinny lapels and skinny ties – that came out of the States, and that was quite cool.”

— Paul Weller

43. “I’m not big on rap, to be honest. I just don’t get it. It’s angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.”

— Paul Weller

44. “I don’t like to get pigeonholed. I don’t like it when people think they have you sewn up.”

— Paul Weller

45. “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.”

— Paul Weller

46. “I suppose it’s nice to have some surprise in life and to surprise yourself in life and see what else you can do.”

— Paul Weller

47. “I’d like to think I’ve left something in the world. Without in any way trying to be morbid, but life is very short, and I’d like to think I’d leave some body of work that would inspire other musicians long after I’ve gone.”

— Paul Weller

48. “I’m fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that’s a pretty good thing for me.”

— Paul Weller

49. “Why not go down the pub? A guy once came up to me at a gig and asked me if I had MySpace. I said, ‘This is my space, and you’re invading it.’”

— Paul Weller

50. “When I’m dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.”

— Paul Weller