146 Quotes by Paul Young

In the early 90s, I did not want to get stuck in pop music.

I started off with a paper round when we were just about old enough to drive. I couldn't drive myself, so someone else would have to drive me and I'd drop off the papers.

I became a qualified machinist at Vauxhall. For some reason it's been erroneously reported that I used to screw on hubcaps, but that's not true. You can't screw on a hubcap, anyway, so I have no idea where that came from.

I'm interested in all types of music.

One of the main reasons people get bullied, in any walk of life, is because they are different. So I think that to throw kids in at the deep end when they are young is a good thing. It gets them used to other people and some of the things they will face. It takes them out of their comfort zone.

Since I'm known for recording other artists' material, I'm absolutely deluged with mail from all the publishing companies. They take all the songs that've been lying around the office for months and throw them at me. Most of them are terrible, but you have to listen... just in case.

Chrysalis Records saw my group, Q-Tips, as a party band. They weren't doing much for our careers.

If you stay in the studio for a long period of time, you start to drive yourself around in circles.

It doesn't pay to get too familiar with your songs. Going off to do other things in between recording sessions gives you a chance to think.