Paolo Nutini chats to I Like Music

PAULO: Some songs started from a bass line, some started from having the full lyric and Jim, my drummer, who's also the first guy I've been in the studio with him since 16, sometimes he'd have an idea and I'd put a lyric to it and then the track evolves, there's no set way to write a song. Sometimes a lyric will go down every five minutes or it'll be spread over a week and you're constantly changing and adding. And sometimes it just works straight away, for instance the songs Autumn and Rewind, those were very much just putting down exactly what was going on at the time. What I was feeling about when I was missing my grandfather, what I was feeling when I was wanting the relationship back in Rewind, so it was almost like writing a diary. Songs like White Lies on the record, I'd find myself changing the lyrics over the course of a few days and constantly trying out new things.

I think it's just, no matter if something seems to work, maybe you've got three songs in a week, the key is not to expect three songs from the next week, and just to go with it and treat music like, as you said, an organic thing not something you can really learn or get better or worse at.
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