Paul Weller Quotes

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

I never thought that I would be creating my own 'cross-over' genre. What I did was very real and organic. I have worked in so many different styles so it all just came together.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really. And I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

I feel my voice can fit in many things so it's very interesting to combine things and music styles.

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song - there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we're all over the place. I like to try different things.

You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.

Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

I like to experiment when it comes to music.

I just like blending all the genres together but blending them up in a good way. I try to be as free as I can with it.

Back then we were young, we would just mash all forms of music together and come up with something.

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.

When I'm in the studio, I'm experimenting, trying things on.

I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.

I'm just experimenting with every different type of music you can imagine and seeing where my voice lies and what sounds best. I think when I do finally do the album it will be very eclectic - just loads of different stuff on it. That's what I am hoping.

In terms of music, I can try anything I want, even something that doesn't work at all, because I'm not putting my career in jeopardy.

I can't re-define music every week!

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community.

I never was the battle rapper. That was never my thing. I always felt like it's enough room for everybody to do their thing. I like bringing new energy, re-inventing the wheel, so to speak, every time I come out.

I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.