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All Quotes by author - Paolo Nutini

" All of a sudden, my picture's in the paper, or I'm making a music video, and it's still the most surreal experience. I thought you could learn, and you would acclimatise, but I really haven't. "

" A lot of people have been very dismissive of me. I'm hardly the darling of the NME. It used to get me down a bit, but you reach a point where you can laugh it off. "

" A lot of places think that bigger is better. It's like consumerism is taking everything over. "

" Always wash your hands, and always tell the truth. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Charts and learning the politics behind making a record - it's pretty soulless. "

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

" 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. "

" I come from Paisley, the same town as David Sneddon, who won 'Fame Academy.' When he was late for his homecoming reception in the town hall, they held an impromptu talent show. I ended up singing some songs, and that's how I was discovered. "

" I don't discriminate when it comes to melon. I'm very open-minded. I really don't mind; I can't say I like any one better than the other. You can put them all in! A little melon mix salad, and I'm just in heaven. "

" I don't know if I've got the capacity for all of the creativity that I want to put out there, which is annoying and frustrating - it's kinda like torture. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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? "

" 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 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 like to indulge all the facets of my personality. There's none that I don't think, in a way, I would want to take away from. "

" 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. "

" I love melon! I don't love melon; that's a bit... Melon's my favorite fruit. "

" I'm always looking for people to play the songs to. "

" I'm at the point of view that I have to look after myself in various levels. "

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

" I'm not a fan of second-hand or vintage clothes. "

" I'm not one to go down that road to say I have some kind of social consciousness. "

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