Quotes from Nick Lowe

I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.

What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.

When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

Bash it out now, tart it up later.

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves.

In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.

I loved Christmas. We had a really great time. But there wasn't - it was all - you had to be happy with, you know, an orange and a couple of walnuts, you know, in your stocking.

I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records.

If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination.

I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when Im lonely I need the noises of destruction When theres nothing new.

They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening.

Cruel to be kind means that I love you.

The older I get, there doesn't seem to be anything remotely more interesting than talking about love and the lack of it and what happens when it's taken away from someone who's had it.

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.