How does it feel to break your heart every night?

Jack Savoretti knows the answer. The singer-songwriter has never been one to hide his emotions, whether on old material or on songs from last year’s Sleep No More album.

“It’s strange, because you live within the three and a half minutes of a song and then you snap out of it,” he says, as he gears up for an outdoor show at the Kelvingrove Bandstand on Thursday.

“It’s like a voodoo moment, you listen to your heart getting broken for three minutes and then you go back to normal. It’s the same thing you do with live shows in general, and that’s why going home is so hard.

“You finish a tour and your emotions are still ready to go through it all every night, but nothing happens. The hardest thing is coming off the road and dealing with that.”

The singer points to his wife and two children as the main reasons for why he has been able to deal with getting back to normal after touring around the country.

“I’ve been on and off the road for the past few years, but the children definitely saved me, because they allow me to feel so much emotion, and they have such energy,” he says.

“You don’t have time to think about yourself. My wife is also very good at bringing me back down to earth! It’s not easy though, because you come back from tour a very self-centred person. That’s not always intentionally, it’s just that you have been going on a personal journey every night when you’re playing gigs and suddenly you’re not doing that.”

Sleep No More is Jack’s fifth album, and was his highest-charting record yet, reaching No 6. After plenty of ups and downs, including nearly quitting music early in his career, the 33-year-old can now enjoy the fact that he has had success on his own terms, doing things his own way.

He believes the record is his most mature release yet, showing him coming to terms with being a husband and a father, and an antidote to much modern pop.

“The pop scene now is all about being accessible and easy, like a Big Mac,” he says.

“It is what it is, and does the same thing every time while being cheap and quick. But after a while people want a nice meal, and it is the same with music. We are at the climax of empty pop music.”

Thursday will be the singer’s second visit to Glasgow in the past several months, following on from an O2 Academy gig last November. He has often spoken in the past about his passion for the city, after Glaswegian fans came out to support him in the early days of his career. He’s not worried about Thursday’s weather, either.

“We’ve played great shows in the rain and great shows in the sun so we’ll see what it’s like,” he chuckles.

“Glasgow was the very first city that embraced us. I think I played King Tut’s about eight times, and it was a place that reacted really well right from the beginning. Then when I was struggling and didn’t know where to go, Glasgow always opened its arms to us.”

Despite early attempts to market him, Jack hasn’t let record labels control him. However he admits he didn’t mind being regularly compared to Paisley’s finest, Paolo Nutini.

“In my books Paolo is the blueprint of how to do it,” he says.

“He has so much experience already and I think you can see that every decision he makes tends to be brave. He’s won the commercial side of music but also stay true to what he wants to do, and that’s every musician’s dream, so hats off to him.”

The singer’s journey might have now reached the high end of the charts, but his main concern is the fans who’ve backed him along the way.

“I value the audience more these days,” says Jack.

“When I started out I didn’t take that into consideration, to be honest. I didn’t know anything about the industry or about having fans, I just wanted to write songs. It was when I wanted to leave music and had a huge u-turn that I realised that the only thing that could protect me from the music industry was the fans, and if I stuck with them then I didn’t need anything else.”

Jack Savoretti, Kelvingrove Bandstand, Thursday, £32.50, 6.30pm

JONATHAN GEDDES