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" People make you feel like a bad guy for asking for seven quid for your album, like you are slapping them in the face, when they'll go and pay two grand for a scarf somebody knitted in a sweat shop and stitched a designer label on. "

Paolo Nutini

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Paolo Nutini

Out

Going

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Paolo Nutini

Singing

Nothing

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" When I got my first publishing deal, I felt some responsibility to try to write with the people that they were asking me to write with. "

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

" 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. "

" I went through a phase of buying a lot of masks, as anyone who has been to a party at the house will testify. "

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

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

" 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

" 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. "

Paolo Nutini

Thought

Talent

" Paisley offered me and my family a life, way back, and it has continued to do so. "

Paolo Nutini

Back

Life

" I never, ever thought I would get to say I was opening a show for the Bay City Rollers. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

Paolo Nutini

Kind

Songwriting

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Paolo Nutini

Brilliant

Just

" Some people have just got a capacity for creativity that's unbelievable! "

" 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. "