111 Quotes by Paolo Nutini

A lot of people have been very dismissive of me. I'm hardly the darling of the NME. It used to get me down a bit, but you reach a point where you can laugh it off.

My parents worked very hard for me and my sister.

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.

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.

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.

Music can really help people, help individuals in beautiful ways.

I know some bands that are precious about their new ideas. They're conscious of the fact that people can - even from mobile phones - begin to get clearer and better recordings of the songs... so they're a lot more hesitant to play them.

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.

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