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" 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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" 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 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? "

Paolo Nutini

Know

People

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I remember I wanted to be Zorro, but I also wanted to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. I obviously had ideas above my station. "

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

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

Paolo Nutini

Out

Going

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

" The way you react to each challenge forms who you become. "

" I learned to sing from my mum and dad's record collection. "

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

Paolo Nutini

Angry

Action

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When I've got time off, my feet get itchy really quickly. "

" Sometimes people don't know what is behind the words they use. But an innocent little remark at school can affect you later in life. "

" 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. "

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

Paolo Nutini

Kind

Road

" I try not to get too self-absorbed. "

" 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

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

Paolo Nutini

Back

Life

" 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 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

" None of us don't have a vice. "

Paolo Nutini

Vice

None

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

" My father was very encouraging. "