Jack Savoretti

“I think my children have definitely made me more romantic, in the sense that I feel a lot more since having my children.”

“I have just enough talent to convince my ambition that everything is possible.”

“Europiana is our answer to Americana. I set out to retain the elegance and charm of our music and the feelings it invokes.”

“It's important to remember and celebrate our roots, and mine are very deeply rooted in a more romantic time of European history.”

“I was in a band, but I never really got turned on by the glitz and glamour of it. I always preferred to focus on the song in the first place rather than the characters in the band.”

“It was at a time in my life when I needed to be told how special certain people in my life were, and how insignificant other things might be. I think I was taking a lot for granted. And it became the reason I proposed to my wife.”

“It's music that is made to be listened to, not just heard. And it's got to be natural. Someone like Nick Drake is a classic example. You almost fall in love with his sound because you feel he's not doing it for you. He's not even doing it for himself. It's something that just happens and even he doesn't know how to control it.”

“My third album, 'Before The Storm,' was the result of me being reintroduced to music in a way. After I'd decided to retire, all this pressure lifted and I wrote all the songs for that album and stopped worrying about the things that weren't my problem.”

“Glasgow is a city that welcomed me when we were really struggling and it's the first city that sung my songs back to me.”

“I think in my 20s I numbed myself, almost daily, trying not to feel.”

“There are moments in your life when the strangest things happen and you don't quite believe it.”

“Jacques Brel's 'Song Of Old Lovers' - 'La Chanson Des Vieux Amants' - to me it's the greatest love song ever. It's untouchable.”

“I feel European.”

“I wasn't very academically inclined; I'm much better at doing.”

“My influences have been mainly Californian and Mediterranean music, so I guess you could call it spaghetti western.”

“My wife is an artist, a painter. We are accustomed to being unemployed for long stretches of time. We know how to handle it.”

“With children your feelings get the better of you. The way they look at you, the way they laugh, the minute they hurt themselves you feel all this combination of feelings you've never felt before.”

“I let go of so much stuff I hated about the industry. I didn't like what I'd seen, I didn't like what had happened to me and how I'd been treated. So with that, I realised I'd fallen out with the industry - not the music.”

“All my true, close old school friends are American.”

“I've never been a fan of genres.”