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" As a kid, I loved to sing along to the Drifters and Otis Redding. "
Paolo Nutini
Along
Kid
Loved
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" 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. "
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" I started to learn some common sense. Even just sort of day-to-day things. I started to cook a little bit more and try to learn to fix things around the house. If something breaks down, rather than call a guy, there's got to be more I can do. "
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House
Down
" Whatever I do, I like to be the one doing it. I don't just like to get someone in to run it and put a name to it. "
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Like
Just
" My father was very encouraging. "
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Very
Father
Encouraging
" Maybe it's the way that I do music, but I was never in a cool indie band or hung out with all the cool arty kids when I came to London. "
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Never
Music
Cool
" The songs are just an attempt to document what's been happening in my life. If people can relate to what's going on with me, then that's great. "
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Me
Life
My Life
" Music can really help people, help individuals in beautiful ways. "
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Ways
Beautiful
Help
" 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. "
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Drum
Been
Guitar
" The way you react to each challenge forms who you become. "
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Who
Way
React
" 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. "
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Sometimes
Three
Fighting
" 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. "
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Song
Mobile
Much
" I'm not a fan of second-hand or vintage clothes. "
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Second-Hand
Vintage
Clothes
" Music is probably one of the most honest things out there - it's feral. "
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Most
Things
Out
" None of us don't have a vice. "
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Us
Vice
None
" When I think of Paisley, I think of everything that has shaped my life. "
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Life
My Life
Shaped
" The first record I was really into was the Drifters' 'When My Little Girl Is Smiling.' "
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First
Smiling
Little
" It's all a progression towards hopefully one day making a record that can be the definitive you can offer. Some bands come in with that at first, and the great bands never really stray from that. I want to earn my stripes. "
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Day
You
Want
" I never, ever thought I would get to say I was opening a show for the Bay City Rollers. "
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Say
City
Opening
" I'm neither here nor there about this Lady Gaga, but she's clearly very passionate about her poker face. "
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Lady
Her
Face
" I left school just shy of 17: I'd started going into touring and that situation. "
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Shy
School
Going
" To sing with Led Zeppelin has allowed me to offer the best places I could afford to my family and friends! "
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Sing
Me
Family
" My parents worked very hard for me and my sister. "
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Parents
Very
Sister
" It's not about someone making a difference on their own; it's about everybody pulling together to make a difference. "
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Someone
Together
Make A Difference
" Some people have just got a capacity for creativity that's unbelievable! "
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Some People
People
Got
" 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. "
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Me
Try
Think
" You should have something to say, an idea you want to get out, and if you don't, just get out of the way, 'cause there's so many great musicians and writers that are in the queue. "
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Great
Musicians
Say
" 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. "
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Feeling
Soul
People
" I was lucky to move around different cultures at an early age and have experience of different lifestyles. "
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Experience
Age
Cultures
" 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? "
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Know
Me
People
" The success was a difficult thing for me to get my head round. When it gets too much, I just have to disappear - to sort my head. "
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Difficult
Too Much
Success