Paolo Nutini Quotes

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk.

Whenever I finish a movie, I usually go through a period where I think I'll never have another idea. And then, somehow, you get another idea.

I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated.

When you have a situation where you're hanging out with 20 or 30 other artists, then there's insane amounts of creativity in the room.

I don't know where the ideas come from, and it's terrifying. They seem to be absolute flukes. When I was in my 20s, I'd walk around with a notebook all the time and make sure I wrote down anything that occurred to me. Now I'm just hoping that some sort of event will descend on me.

You can't slot a time and a space and think 'ok now it's time to sit and compose.' It just doesn't work like that for me.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

If I get a commission, it's like a flood of creative thought and energy.

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.

The magic happens in the creative studios. But sometimes you're inspired when you're removed from it a little bit. That's when the juice starts to percolate.

I think every writer's had the experience of having a really good idea, waiting to write it, and then once you write it, you're like, "Oh I kind of got past the sell by date on this." I'm not connected to the initial spark that was the idea. A lot of that's about staying open.

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.