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" 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! "

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" You've got to make sure that you don't have an airbrushed picture making you look like a 15-year-old cherub when your lyrics suggest otherwise. "

Paolo Nutini

Your

Got

" My parents worked very hard for me and my sister. "

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

Paolo Nutini

Kind

Road

" 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. "

" 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 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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Love is music, and music is home. "

" 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. "

" Music is probably one of the most honest things out there - it's feral. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" I've always enjoyed the bohemia of Paisley. "

" The first time I did everything was in Paisley - the first time I went to the pictures or the bowling or the ice rink or the swimming baths. "

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

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

Paolo Nutini

Back

Life

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

" 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. "

Paolo Nutini

Try

Think

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

" 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. "

" 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 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

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

" 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. "

Paolo Nutini

Name

Just