Paul Weller Quotes

If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.

It can be disheartening to see acts that don't necessarily have any input on their own material to do so well in the charts.

Obviously Spawn was at the top of the charts at that point so you get a lot of opportunities.

It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.

Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

You can tell when you're in a hit.

I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

I don't rely on my figure to sell records.

I'm not ashamed of selling millions of records. I'm very fortunate to be in that position.

It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.

I do want to sell as many records and win as many awards as I can. The awards though, they don't necessarily determine if you're good or not. I know that now.

Chart positions aren't the be all and end all.

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

My hits are not hits.

You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.

Every year, we couldn't believe it, and even when I look back on it now, to sell 14 million singles, 50 million albums and sell out arenas and stadiums, what Westlife achieved was crazy. It's like One Direction probably don't realise how big they are. They'll look back one day and think, 'Holy God, that was pretty amazing.'

When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not.

There were aspects of stardom I didn't like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative. By the time I came to write 'Setting Sons,' I felt my writing was more like prose, set to music.

I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making something cool, and says, 'Great, I hope this doesn't sell.' I don't understand that mind-set. I want hits: a big bunch of them.

My father would make record after record, and he'd be so surprised at what would sell and what wouldn't.

Man, I was scared. I didn't know what to think. All of a sudden, I got a record climbing the charts, and I'm out in the streets. You know, workin' on the docks. And the first week, it sold something like 40,000 in New Orleans.