Paolo Nutini Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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I don't purposely push the boundaries... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.
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I remember the excruciating school task of writing a three-page term paper. But, oh, that feeling when I was done! I think I drive myself for that feeling of accomplishment.
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I played the coronet first, and then I upgraded to the trumpet. First song I learned on there was 'Hot Cross Buns.'
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Pinchas Perry, the director of 'The Chicago 8,' offered me the role of the judge, and he did not know that, 35 years earlier, I'd played a judge in the theater production. So life has its own little twists and turns.
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People think I'm Snow White... the most boring person in the world!
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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.
