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Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.
Paul Weller
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Ageism or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. Oh, they're too old to make films or write books. You know what I mean?
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An artist or writer always has to move forward. All the time you're trying to improve yourself, or at least look at ways to improve things or make things better. I'm not really one to harp on previous records. I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.
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There are areas of music that I've never been to before, so that's always nice thing to have in life. That there are other areas you haven't been to. You haven't covered all the ground, and there's plenty more uncharted territory to cover as well.
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I love the Kinks, but I like all sorts of music. If I stay at home at night and play records, I just go through the whole spectrum, really. I just love music.
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It's just something internal that says, 'I've got to do this now. This is what I'm doing now.'
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Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.
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I look for that stimulation constantly. I'm looking for inspiration and stimulation. Not bored with what we've done.
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I still want to do what I want to do, but we also have to think about some sense of protecting the business that's out there as well.
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There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some sort of drone instrument, and there's always percussion.
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It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it's encouraging.
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There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them.
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I'm so lucky, I'm just really grateful for what I've got around me - children and my wife and everything else.
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