A biography for Paolo Nutinihasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Sometimes people don't know what is behind the words they use. But an innocent little remark at school can affect you later in life.”
“Politicians have an arrogance that I just do not understand. I've seen more constructive debates in high school.”
“I love melon! I don't love melon; that's a bit... Melon's my favorite fruit.”
“I've always got a notepad on or a voice recorder recording ideas.”
“Music can really help people, help individuals in beautiful ways.”
“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.”
“You should have something to say, an idea you want to get out, and if you don't, just get out of the way, 'cause there's so many great musicians and writers that are in the queue.”
“As a kid, I loved to sing along to the Drifters and Otis Redding.”
“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.”
“The success was a difficult thing for me to get my head round. When it gets too much, I just have to disappear - to sort my head.”
“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 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.”
“Really, if you've got people who want you to play, you play.”
“You walk with a different air if you're wearing something sharp.”
“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.”
“It's a sacred thing, but I do want to get married. I'd love that.”
“My father was very encouraging.”
“Touring can be really tiring. I can get homesick, and I spend a lot of time on my phone.”
“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.”