Quotes from Paolo Nutini

I've always enjoyed the bohemia of Paisley.

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

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

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.

I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons.

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!

I'm not seeking for answers; I just want to tell stories and state my opinion.

I try not to get too self-absorbed.

You walk with a different air if you're wearing something sharp.

Music is a good way to channel your fragile, vulnerable, needy side, but it's also something to rejoice in.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Always wash your hands, and always tell the truth.

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.

It was in love I was created, and in love is how I hope I die

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.

When you've displayed a weakness, you've displayed something a person can grab a hold of and attack you there. If you're not ashamed of it, who can make you feel bad about it? Nobody. If you make a mistake, at least you get to see them, identify them, acknowledge them and hopefully remedy them.

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

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

My best mates when I was 19 were all in their 30s. I used to go to all their house parties, and they were crazier than the guys who were 17, 18. They were so much more liberated than the people who were apparently shackle-free.

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.