Paul Weller Quotes

The most rewarding experience as a musician is to know that I moved people personally.

It makes me feel great, knowing my songs are being heard and of service to people.

It's not a lot, but we have 8,000 people following us. I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words that I wrote and chords that I wrote being sung by somebody else. It's a true honor, and it might sound intense, but it's one of the most rewarding parts of the songwriting experience.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.

As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.

My favorite part about writing a song is really when it's released, and I can see that it relates to so many people.

I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words that I wrote and chords that I wrote being sung by somebody else.

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

I still hope that more people can create art, even though artistic genres may never be the most popular or money-making genres. But the thing is, I think art is more long-lasting. It stays in people, and it changes them.

I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

For people to link my music to their lives, it's incredible, there's no other feeling like it.

I don't expect everyone to get something deep out of it. Some people can just listen to the music, or get their aggressions out, but I think with any great painting or movie, album or whatever it is, it's better if people can take what they need from it. That they're not forced to get some particular message.

I've had a lot of people come up to me after shows and tell me that "Dollhouse" really helped them with whatever they were going through with their families. I thought that was really amazing, that it could mean one thing for me but another thing for someone else.

I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.

I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that.

There's always music that moves me. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It's usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.

It doesn't mean that I'm overly enthusiastic about much music. Except the people that really touch me. It has to touch me, it has to grab a hold of me, I'm not looking for anything in particular.

I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost. There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them. If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60. I don't know, that's a commercial thing, but just the fact that other people like you... there's no point in making music, otherwise. Otherwise you might as well make it in your bedroom and leave it there.

I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.

Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

I think that music is still a mystery to most people. It kind of goes through most people without a specific thought. They feel the music, which is what's supposed to happen. They're not supposed to be curious about who wrote the music; they're supposed to feel what the show is trying to get them to feel. So if I help get that feeling across, that's good enough for me.

I guess some people like to just stick with their sound, like Weezer or something, but I think I just try to keep it as close to my real life, in a Neil Young sort of way, as possible.