Paolo Nutini Quotes

You can Photoshop something, put it out, and everyone believes it.

I think if I was fooling the people, over 35 years of it now, I would've been caught already fooling them.

A lot of rappers lie about who and what they are.

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me.

You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

I think people understand I'm not actually the real Thomas Jefferson.

We've all grown wary of being lied to online - let's face it, dudes are always exaggerating their heights - so trust is a hot commodity.

That image of who I was publicly was so solidified. You're that person. And it wasn't even close to a true representation of where I was in my life.

If you don't live what you sing about, your mirror is gonna fade.

I don't knock anyone's hustle, but I didn't want to slap my name on anything that wasn't authentic to me.

I enjoy being myself on television, where I am not enacting a character.

After working over 8 years in radio to build my brand, I would never want to misrepresent myself.

You can't believe everything you read in a newspaper or everything that's coming out of the president's mouth. And you can't believe when someone posts a picture from their personal life, because most of the time, it's staged - we're showing each other these idealized versions of ourselves so that we seem better and other people will feel worse.

People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake. [...] You never see a 10-megapixel photograph of Big Foot or the Abominable Snowman or the Loch Ness Monster.

Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

Try to strip me of my credibility and make me look fake, G you only gonna be in for a rude awakening.

I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

Don't take what someone else has made sure of and pretend it's you yourself that have made sure of it till it's yours absolutely by conviction. It's stealing to take it and hypocrisy and you'll fall into a hole.

You've got to play what people think you are, rather than what you are. You have to have a sense of what you are as you're playing what people think you are.