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Maybe it's the way that I do music, but I was never in a cool indie band or hung out with all the cool arty kids when I came to London.Collection: Paolo
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.Collection: Paolo
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!Collection: Paolo
To be honest, the first time round, I didn't think 'Fame Academy' was the worst premise in the world. You got people on, and they would write songs and develop themselves as artists. But then, instead of getting a little bit more credible, it got a little bit more ridiculous.Collection: Paolo
Love is music, and music is home.Collection: Paolo
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.Collection: Paolo
When it comes to the business side of it, as much as you might hate it, the reality is that you give the record company a sort of ownership of your songs, so you've got to make sure you're getting everything you can out of it now, because if you're not, then who is?Collection: Paolo
Touring can be really tiring. I can get homesick, and I spend a lot of time on my phone.Collection: Paolo
I only became interested in clothes when I was in my mid-teens. I'd do things like spike my hair and put on a nice shirt, but I'd hardly call myself fashion-conscious. I just don't have the energy.Collection: Paolo
You don't want to go and make something, then go out and do shows, if you're not really into it. You don't want to go out there and make people feel like you're grudging playing them a song. That's a disturbing thought.Collection: Paolo
I left school just shy of 17: I'd started going into touring and that situation.Collection: Paolo
I am not steeped in all that angst. I'm never going to be Sid Vicious.Collection: Paolo
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.Collection: Paolo
I'm in the highest bracket. There's no way that a 22-year-old should be hit for that amount of money when he's got his whole life ahead of him.Collection: Paolo
It's a sacred thing, but I do want to get married. I'd love that.Collection: Paolo
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.Collection: Paolo
With the first album, there was a lot of angst. I was very naive. I thought I was on top of the whole thing, but I really didn't know what I was getting into.Collection: Paolo
When I've got time off, my feet get itchy really quickly.Collection: Paolo
If you're going to call yourself a musician, you have to go out and make music.Collection: Paolo
I get nervous all the time. Both on and off stage. You just hope it turns into adrenaline.Collection: Paolo
I've always got a notepad on or a voice recorder recording ideas.Collection: Paolo
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.Collection: Paolo
I like to record something pretty much as soon as I have an idea for a song, but I'm on so many buses, I have to record on my mobile.Collection: Paolo
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.Collection: Paolo
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.Collection: Paolo
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.Collection: Paolo
That's the good thing about music: you can sing about people's lives in its stages and feelings. Some songs can put something in context that you couldn't. They can free your mind or can make you think or can be redeeming.Collection: Paolo
Sometimes it's good to just sing and let the words come out. Whatever comes out is valid because it's what you were thinking.Collection: Paolo
Just remember that if you've lost something, you will be open to something else.Collection: Paolo
My inspiration for songs is just everyday life. I just write down words about things that have happened to me, people I've met.Collection: Paolo
'Astral Weeks' is a brilliant album, and songs like 'Moondance' are just beautiful lyrically.Collection: Paolo
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.Collection: Paolo
The first record I was really into was the Drifters' 'When My Little Girl Is Smiling.'Collection: Paolo
I just want people to leave a show and go, 'That was the most rockin' show I've ever seen.' I hope people can just roll with me a little bit - you know?Collection: Paolo
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.Collection: Paolo
I was lucky to move around different cultures at an early age and have experience of different lifestyles.Collection: Paolo
Racism is one of the worst forms of torture because it's directed at something you never asked for and something you can't change.Collection: Paolo
I learned to sing from my mum and dad's record collection.Collection: Paolo
As a kid, I loved to sing along to the Drifters and Otis Redding.Collection: Paolo
I don't mind being criticised, but hearing yourself described as the next James Blunt - that hurts.Collection: Paolo