Paul Weller Quotes

I think about Twitter as the friend that's always awake. It's why I tweet so much.

I go to a club to relax and hear the music on a big sound system. I don't go to pull a guy.

I had 60,000 friends on MySpace.

From time to time, people pat me on the head. It happens on public transport, in the supermarket, in bars. It's a common enough occurrence that it very rarely takes me completely by surprise.

Twitter, Facebook are so different from where I began. It's like a fire that takes off... I'm reading everybody's Twitter.

Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.

I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.

Facebook? I have no clue about it. MySpace, none of that. I'm the worst.

My approach with social media is to interact with the readers I already have. I do it mostly to procrastinate from my writing. It's an escape. It's the only socializing I get outside of my wife, and she gets sick of me.

I'm actually not on Twitter.

I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't make dates with them. I don't have to.

A lot of people have put their lives online and are using MySpace to manage their social lives.

My public Facebook page is what it is. My Twitter account is sort of what it is, but if I'm totally honest with you, that is not my personal, private self. I have another Facebook page that is devoted to my dear friends and family, and they can keep in touch with me that way.

If the night's right and the people are right, of course I want to be out, I want to be socializing. I don't want to be in my studio 24 hours a day for the whole rest of my life.

I never cake someone who doesn't want to be caked - at least, I try not to. Sometimes I miss my target. I'm pretty much going through the crowd making sure I find someone who wants to get caked. If you don't want to get caked, shake your head or tell me you don't want to get caked. It's that easy.

I've never gone on Facebook or MySpace.

MySpace is the site I wanted to be on.

Social media has changed our lives forever. Some continue to reject social media, refusing to become one of the sheep, but you just can't avoid it.

Social networks didn't exist when I started. Twitter and Facebook didn't exist. It was all about MySpace when I first got in the game.

Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.

When I moved to New York City to go college, my mother said, 'If you want to be recognized, you need to go out to a club.' Because we didn't have computers. We didn't have social media. We didn't even have cellphones. So you had to go out to be recognized.

I think we've built a bit of a culture and a market around people who are open and seek out that social interaction.

I don't spend a ton of time interacting, but I feel like I probably do more than most rappers/artists. I just find it interesting to be able to communicate with fans. It's cool.

I never even had a MySpace.

I don't really go to a lot of parties. It only seems that way because so many photos are taken when I do go to one.