Paul Weller Quotes

I really feel there's no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That's an empowering feeling - that we can bring a song to life.

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology.

I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.

Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

I think I had more freedom when I began making films. I did not know what could not be done. I was naive. I did what I wanted to. As you gain awareness, you start losing freedom.

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

To break R&B into subcategories does a disservice to the music. I like to live in a zone where I can do whatever I want, where I don't have to worry about genre.

I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.

Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.

The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can make a piece of art as big as you want and whatever shape you want.

It's a very subjective, personal, instinctive approach as musicians of saying, 'We don't want to replace what's around; we just want to widen the possibilities.'

The greatest gift I've been given is being naive, because I don't know what I can't do. And when you don't know what you can't do, you think you can do everything.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

Above all else, 'Doctor Who' still seems to me to offer near-infinite scope for the writer. It must be the least constraining of televisual properties.

Why limit yourself? I feel like I can do anything.

I have no idea where I want to go musically, but I'm fine that way. I don't need to be faithful to any concept, you know.

I keep a band of great young people around me, and we're not musically restrained. It's not about 'Let's do it correct' but 'Let's do it right.'

We don't put limits on ourselves.

I just don't feel limited by genre.

We don't want to box ourselves within any type of genre, you know? Whatever feels good, if it moves us and we like it, we get on it and make it our own. That's what we do.

I have to always check back in with my imagination just to remember that I have this infinite potential, and I can do anything, and anything is possible.

I've got a comfortable home for my music where I can put out whatever the hell I want, and I feel like the slate is really clean, and I can get away with anything. It's a nice, free feeling.

Don't put yourself in a box. Become anything that you want to be.