Paul Weller (singer)

"Life is a drink and you get drunk when youre young."

"Its so hard to understand why the world is your oyster but your futures a clam."

"If we get through for two minutes only it will be a start!"

"The fingers feel the lines, they prod the space - your ageing face, The face that was once so beautiful, is still there but unrecognisable..."

"The morning slips away in a Valium haze and catalogues, And numerous cups of coffee, In the afternoon the weekly food is put in bags - as you float off down the high street. The shop windows reflect, play a nameless host to a closet ghost - A picture of your fantasy, a victim of your misery..."

"The lords and ladies pass a ruling That sons and girls go hand in land From good stock and the best breeding Paid for by the servile class."

"When youre knocked on your back and you lifes a flop, When youre down on the bottom and theres nothing else but to shout to the top!"

"Is happiness real? Or am I so jaded I cant see or feel - like a man been tainted. Numbed by the effect - aware of the muse Too in touch with myself - I light the fuse."

"The more I see - the more I know, The more I know, the less I understand."

"Some people might say my life is in a rut, but Im quite happy with what Ive got."

"Youll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns - And the public wants what the public gets - but I dont get what this society wants."

"Those braying sheep on my TV screen - Make this boy shout! Make this boy scream!"