Paul Weller Discusses the Benefits of Sobriety

AND HE LOVES IT –

June 11, 2024 – His decision to go sober was part of a general mental shift later in life. At 66, this year, he claimed that getting older was making him more “experimental”. “The older I get, the more open-minded I get,” and being open to sobriety was part of this after his wife gave him an ultimatum over his habits in 2010.

Now sober, he said to The Big Issue in a new interview, “Everything changed when I stopped drinking. It’s like night and day, it really is.” It was the very idea of that line that seemed to push him over the edge as he said, “When you’re younger, you’re just a funny pisshead. Then you cross a line at a certain age and you’re just another old drunk. It’s a hard thing to admit, but once you do, it gets easier.”

The desire to not be “another old drunk” led him to pursue sobriety. “It was something in my body that said, ‘You’ve got to stop now.’ It was a bigger force than me just consciously saying, ‘I’ve got to stop’, which I’d said many times,” Weller said of the tipping point moment.