Nick Lowe Quotes

I felt that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to do certain things, and one of them was to have a hit in my own right. At least one.

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

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

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

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

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

Cruel to be kind means that I love you.

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

I used to sort of take the phone off the hook, you know, put my feet up and watch the TV until it was all over.

A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.

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

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

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

Bash it out now, tart it up later.

You've got to really know your song, inside and out.

I've always felt kind of like an outsider, even when I was very successful back in the old days. Even then. I kind of enjoyed it, really.

To a certain extent, yes, we do. But there's - but there's a very limited menu. There's only about sort of 20 songs that you hear on rotation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.