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" 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. "

Paolo Nutini

Heaven

Love

Sun

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

" It's not about someone making a difference on their own; it's about everybody pulling together to make a difference. "

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

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Out

Going

" 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. "

" 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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Name

Just

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

" When you're waking up every day, and it's all about you, I don't consider that to be a way to live your life if you can help it. I think people who know me know that I find time to enjoy myself and not take life - or myself - too seriously at all. "

" 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. "

" My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy. "

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Kind

Songwriting

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

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

" When I think of Paisley, I think of everything that has shaped my life. "

" I've met such amazing people in their 40s, in their 60s, 70s, and they completely bely their age on paper. "

" Sometimes the last thing you want to do is to go on stage and bare your soul in front of hundreds of complete strangers. Singing the same songs night after night can remind you of things you'd rather forget. "

" The more I watch politicians in action, it just makes me angry. "

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Angry

Action

" 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. "

" 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. "

Paolo Nutini

Life

My Life

" To sing with Led Zeppelin has allowed me to offer the best places I could afford to my family and friends! "

Paolo Nutini

Sing

Family

" When things get too grand or too big, I struggle to keep up with it all. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" That's the good thing about music: you can sing about people's lives in its stages and feelings. Some songs can put something in context that you couldn't. They can free your mind or can make you think or can be redeeming. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Paolo Nutini

Understand

Down

" When you open your mind up, and you go into a creative state, you can't just switch if off. When you have an idea, a creative impulse, and then you ignore it, it can keep you up when you just want to go to your bed - which is why it's great to have voice recorders on your phone! "