Paolo Nutini Quotes

My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.

I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

I like the guy who reads. Being articulate is something that's very important to me. But you need to know how to chop wood and fix a car and do guy things. I didn't grow up with spectators. Nobody was a spectator.

I'm not in the business of telling people 'DIY or die,' but I do think it's important to be as hands-on with what you're doing as possible.

Life is composed of different inventions. I have continued to work at different things and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something.

I'm pretty handy! I do a lot of things around the house, and I actually enjoy it.

Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

If I need something, I'll invent it.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

I'm a DIY kinda guy.

I'm a really good cook. I left home to start my career at 15 - so my choices were to either learn to cook or eat Ramen noodles for the rest of my life.

A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

I've always been adventurous. In the summertime, my mom would lock me outside of the house and say, 'Do something, and come back later.'

With AC/DC, if you've got a problem, you sort it out yourself.

It's me who fixes the roof, unblocks the drain, and changes the plug. I'm Spartacus.

I was out of the house at 16 by my own doing. It forced me to really grow up and take care of myself, and I learned a lot of things that your parents usually teach you, on my own.

Most parents' goal is to launch their children into the world with all the tools they need to make it on their own.

I've always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart people are hopeless in the face of anything actual. They are terrible cooks. They cannot dress themselves. They are children who need guidance and protecting.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

A real man don't call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it, on the spot

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.

Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information that I wouldn't have otherwise gotten. I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.'

Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.

If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.