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Paul Weller

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  1. “I was only going to look back at the age thing, wasn't it? Odd that it was because even into 1971 we didn't have any hot water. But I mean, you know, it's not that bad, I know. But at least there was a sense of community anyway. Think about, you know, sort of leaving your back door open was actually true then. You could do that. Because I suppose because there was nothing to Nick anyway, because it wasn't yours. It was all on HP anyway. And everyone knew that in the area.”

    2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Very small. We lived in this. I mean, it sounds like, again, it sounds like a terrible cliche, but we've lived in an old sort of Victorian council house. So we didn't have hot water and there was still an outside toilet. And there was only central heating.”

    2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Then he was only 20s, I think. So she would always be playing music. There'd always be the radio on or she'd be playing records on the radio gram.”

    2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Talk to They're both real characters, my mum and dad. They're very strong characters. So I think you have to be sort of strong to get a wording as well, you know. My dad just worked on the building. He was a scaffolder and did bricklaying. And my mummy was a cleaner.”

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  5. “It's just fun, fun, fun as I remember. I mean, I don't know. You kind of always remember the best bits, don't you? I mean, we lived in a very modest working class lifestyle and home and... But it was fun, I think. I remember it's been fun anyway.”

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  6. “Totally, yeah, because it wasn't just the music, it was the attitude, it was the haircuts, it was the clothes, it was everything, it was all encompassing. It all went hand in hand to me, the whole thing.”

    2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “It was the small faces and it's a tin soldier which is from 1967. I'd like to pick one band out from that era. I guess it's them because I just thought they were... I just love everything about them. They look like a proper band. They're all the same size. I love the way they look. I have the sound. They look like a proper group. There's so few groups these days that look like that and sound like it as well. And just how young they were. I mean, they were probably all in their under the 20s, but just the kind of sort of mature sound there that just encapsulate all of it for me.”

    2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Yeah, totally, yeah, every little single little word on the sleeve. Would know all the beatle lyrics off by heart and the kinks and all those bands, you know. And they were like my book, so I was never particularly into books or into schooling or education. That was my education to me.”

    2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “To you through your songs? No, it isn't. It isn't at all. It isn't at all because I think that's what you're trying to write. You're writing to communicate with people so you couldn't take the exception of that. It's more I don't sit and think where the songs come from, that's what it really is. Why do I write? I just do. I accept that's what I do in life. And that's what I've always done.”

    2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “I suppose you can, yeah, but I think sometimes that process could happen weeks or months or years later, you know, and sometimes it doesn't happen at all, which is fine as well.”

    2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “I don't like, oh, yeah, so I do loathe it sometimes, I suppose, but I don't know if it's just being guarded. There's some things I can't answer. When people say to me, where does that song come from, whatever song it may be? And it's like, I don't know. He just arrived at my doorstep. I don't know. I mean, sometimes the songs are about very specific and other times they just come to you, you know. And I suppose, I don't know the answer to a lot of those things because I don't care to know the answer really. I've quite like the magic that when you don't know the answer to it.”

    2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source