Paul Weller Quotes

Typically, every 14 to 16 months, we're putting a new album out. To be honest, I wish it was slower.

Someone told me once that Lucinda Williams takes six years between albums, and that's what stuck to me; it's like, you really are a factory. You don't do things to make them, on your own time.

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

The first year with the success that we had and let me point out that the time frame changes depending on which decade you look at it. In the seventies acts were kind of expected to do an album a year. If you look at the Beatles they were doing three a year.

I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters.

We should be able to write songs for a new album every six months. If you think about it, it's not a crazy amount of writing.

I am someone who likes to take my time. I do one album in three years, unlike others.

There's a rumour that we actually make all our albums in the last six months before they're released and the rest of it is procrastination.

We don't ever spread ourselves too thin. And sometimes it's a little bit to the chagrin of our fans; they don't get albums... I mean, The Beatles were doing two albums a year at one point.

Well, I always leave massive gaps between albums.

I would expect another Scars album before another System album.

What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album without any commercial concerns whatsoever.

We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.

Every time there's a list of the 100 greatest records of all time, all those albums were recorded in two days. Hardly any of them took a year, I'll tell you. In this day and age, I think it's important that people know that.

When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.

I'm free to do what I please, I'm probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.

If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, and he produced Janis Joplin's album [1967's Big Brother & the Holding Company]. He always owned small labels as well - he had a label called Mainstream Records in the 70s.

You don't want to disappoint. Especially someone like me who's been out of music for years and hasn't had an album in like, four years.

I used to make albums because I wasn't touring, and so I thought, "This is the best way for people to find out about me.

It was 22 years of work in a row, right up until 1987. Twenty-two years in a row-either on tour, writing an album, or recording an album. It wasn't until 1987 that I was able to take a breath.

With MTV in the '80s, you made your album but then you needed to use any money you made to create a video - instead of being able to use that money to pay for you and your band to live on while you wrote new songs. So MTV upped the ante of looking for one hit. Conceptual bands who didn't have a hit were going to lose.