Paolo Nutini Quotes
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Touring can be really tiring. I can get homesick, and I spend a lot of time on my phone.
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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.
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To sing with Led Zeppelin has allowed me to offer the best places I could afford to my family and friends!
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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.
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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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I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons.
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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.
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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.
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Always wash your hands, and always tell the truth.
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When it comes to the business side of it, as much as you might hate it, the reality is that you give the record company a sort of ownership of your songs, so you've got to make sure you're getting everything you can out of it now, because if you're not, then who is?
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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.
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I'm not a fan of second-hand or vintage clothes.
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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.
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I'm at the point of view that I have to look after myself in various levels.
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I don't discriminate when it comes to melon. I'm very open-minded. I really don't mind; I can't say I like any one better than the other. You can put them all in! A little melon mix salad, and I'm just in heaven.
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The way you react to each challenge forms who you become.
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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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When things get too grand or too big, I struggle to keep up with it all.
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You walk with a different air if you're wearing something sharp.
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As a kid, I loved to sing along to the Drifters and Otis Redding.
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As I'm getting older, I work out what I want and what I need. And I just need to go home and see the people I love and write.
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The more I watch politicians in action, it just makes me angry.
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Charts and learning the politics behind making a record - it's pretty soulless.
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I am not steeped in all that angst. I'm never going to be Sid Vicious.