Top 110 Quotes & Sayings by Paolo Nutini - Page 2

You don't want to go and make something, then go out and do shows, if you're not really into it. You don't want to go out there and make people feel like you're grudging playing them a song. That's a disturbing thought.

I am not steeped in all that angst. I'm never going to be Sid Vicious.

As I'm getting older, I work out what I want and what I need. And I just need to go home and see the people I love and write.

I've always got a notepad on or a voice recorder recording ideas.

I thought about going onto the first one, Pop Idol. My mum was saying, 'Go on!' But I decided not to. 'The X Factor,' though, doesn't really seem to be a show about musical talent anymore.

Sometimes it's good to just sing and let the words come out. Whatever comes out is valid because it's what you were thinking.

The people I admire are Tim Buckley and John Martyn - singers that grew into themselves and were honest. John Martyn is one of the great soul singers because soul is not a genre; it's a feeling.

I just want people to leave a show and go, 'That was the most rockin' show I've ever seen.' I hope people can just roll with me a little bit - you know?

It's a sacred thing, but I do want to get married. I'd love that.

I think it was definitely a love for the four- or five-part vocal male harmony groups that really took me away. I'd always try and be, like, the fifth Drifter; I'd always try and find another harmony that wasn't there.

To be honest, the first time round, I didn't think 'Fame Academy' was the worst premise in the world. You got people on, and they would write songs and develop themselves as artists. But then, instead of getting a little bit more credible, it got a little bit more ridiculous.

Sometimes when you get frustrated, your back is against the wall, and you come out fighting and knock out three songs in as many days.

I'm neither here nor there about this Lady Gaga, but she's clearly very passionate about her poker face.

I'm in the highest bracket. There's no way that a 22-year-old should be hit for that amount of money when he's got his whole life ahead of him.

I learned to sing from my mum and dad's record collection.

I left school just shy of 17: I'd started going into touring and that situation.

I don't mind being criticised, but hearing yourself described as the next James Blunt - that hurts.

I don't want to slip into Johnny Borrell mode. I don't want to be singing that there's nothing on TV, nothing on the radio.

When it comes to the business side of it, as much as you might hate it, the reality is that you give the record company a sort of ownership of your songs, so you've got to make sure you're getting everything you can out of it now, because if you're not, then who is?

One of my favourite songs is 'A Message to You, Rudy,' which was done by the Specials.

I only became interested in clothes when I was in my mid-teens. I'd do things like spike my hair and put on a nice shirt, but I'd hardly call myself fashion-conscious. I just don't have the energy.

One of my ambitions is to move to Tuscany. I like the idea of getting a vineyard. I love being under the sun and being casual and comfortable. That's my idea of heaven.

My inspiration for songs is just everyday life. I just write down words about things that have happened to me, people I've met.

When I've got time off, my feet get itchy really quickly.

As a kid, I loved to sing along to the Drifters and Otis Redding.

I get nervous all the time. Both on and off stage. You just hope it turns into adrenaline.

Racism is one of the worst forms of torture because it's directed at something you never asked for and something you can't change.

I like to record something pretty much as soon as I have an idea for a song, but I'm on so many buses, I have to record on my mobile.

The first record I was really into was the Drifters' 'When My Little Girl Is Smiling.'

I was lucky to move around different cultures at an early age and have experience of different lifestyles.

I know some bands that are precious about their new ideas. They're conscious of the fact that people can - even from mobile phones - begin to get clearer and better recordings of the songs... so they're a lot more hesitant to play them.

I can't speak much Italian. I do go down well over there, but it's frustrating because I can't really speak it. Even if I do talk, they can't understand my accent, but I should try to learn it.

With the first album, there was a lot of angst. I was very naive. I thought I was on top of the whole thing, but I really didn't know what I was getting into.

Touring can be really tiring. I can get homesick, and I spend a lot of time on my phone.

I write on the acoustic guitar, I write some on the piano, but I've been messing around with these guitar pedals and drum machines, educating myself in that world.

'Astral Weeks' is a brilliant album, and songs like 'Moondance' are just beautiful lyrically.

If you're going to call yourself a musician, you have to go out and make music.

I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons.

Sometimes people don't know what is behind the words they use. But an innocent little remark at school can affect you later in life.

Just remember that if you've lost something, you will be open to something else.

I like to watch a bit of Disney, sprinkle some cocaine on some melon and just sit and eat it. I'm joking, I'm joking. There's no Disney.

Hey, I put some new shoes on and suddenly everything is right.

I found my mind has changed over the last years. Different vulnerabilities - things that I was never vulnerable to before I am now. And vice-versa. Things I was vulnerable to then are like water off a duck's back. I have a lot less fear. I think I'm getting more determined.

Some songs started from a bass line, some started from having the full lyric and Jim, my drummer, who's also the first guy I've been in the studio with him since 16, sometimes he'd have an idea and I'd put a lyric to it and then the track evolves, there's no set way to write a song.

It was in love I was created, and in love is how I hope I die

When I was a kid. I never really had luck with the ladies my early years in high school. Then I started singing and I found that helped, so I would go in the talent show every year. It was always some female singer that would go up there and blast out some Celine Dion classic and just blow me away.

I like music because... its expressive, you can convey whatever you're thinking through a song. And it's the best respite for me anyway to do it through music. So I like music because you can express and let your soul out through it.

Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall

The more I watch politicians in action, it just makes me angry. I watch certain politicians get asked questions that need answers and may just prance around with a big laugh and smile on my face. Politicians have an arrogance. I just do not understand. I've seen more constructive debate since high school.

When we play Jenny Don't Be Hasty, that's cool because everyone really dances. It's between that and when we play Loving You, that's when you give it your all. Well you give it your all for all of it but that's like proper end singing with your full strength put in.