Paul Weller Quotes

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.

There's something to be said about being able to be retrospective about a certain age as opposed to just in it.

But I had a strong reaction to my first three albums and I struggle with them now, as an adult. It's very much the same as looking at your teenage photos in high school.

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

Nineteen is as alive as 40-plus. I can vividly remember 19 and how I saw the world.

Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that.

When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: 'How could I have done that?' but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you're 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: 'Was I like that? Was I really like that?'

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

When I was 19, 20, 21, I wasn't extremely thick.

I feel like I've lived two or three completely different lives. At 33, I'm quite reflective and have the perspective you get in your old age when you have been through the losses of life.

As a kid, you don't know what's going on at the time. But once you get older, you start to realize it.

Sometimes, to move into the future, you must go back the past.

As I've grown older, I appreciate what I had at Lilly even more than I did back then.

It's interesting how things you hear as a kid take on a whole new meaning when you are an adult.

I was always mature for my age.