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I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.

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Paul Weller
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 25
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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.
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The Beatles changed the world. They certainly changed my world, and many, many other individuals as well.
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The '40s were quite austere and super glamorous.
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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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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 suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s.
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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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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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Even somebody like The Black Keys or Royal Blood, they all have this original roots base to what they do.
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I could say that 'Exile On Main Street' was my favourite or whatever, but I'm more about the songs and the artists and the sound that they bring.
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I get bored quickly. I kind of take my hat off to bands who have been around for a long time and still do the same thing, because it's hard to keep a band together for decades. But I couldn't do that. I couldn't play the same songs night after night or just trade on my past glories, because it wouldn't interest me as a person.
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In all honesty, I don't know what one song can change.
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In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.
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I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.
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It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus.
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