And there were sort of three toys for boys and three toys for girls. And the boys I can remember was, well, there was a Dan Dare Ray Gun. Dan Dare was a sort of a cartoon character. He was just sort of a - he was like a Battle of Britain fighter pilot, only in space.

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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.

play attitude people

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

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

tolerance understanding peace

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

mainstream outsiders felt

And the other thing for the sort of posher kids was a sort of lethal scooter, you know. One of the things that you just push along with your - really heavy, lethal, you know, trap your fingers in and every bit of metal got rusty very quickly. And the girls I seem to remember they had a thing like a broomstick with a horse's head on the top which they sat astride.

horse girl kids

As soon as one of my records goes on, it makes a vast portion of the public nervous. They get spooked by it. To some people who have ears to hear, it's a delightful, refreshing change. But to most of the public, it's a load of homemade-sounding nonsense.

records ears people

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

big-fish headache ponds

My latest theory is that it's - well, I describe it as, like, being in an apartment with kind of thin walls. And in the apartment next door, they've got a radio tuned constantly on - tuned to a really cool radio station. It's on all the time. And you can just hear it coming through the wall all the time.

wall radio doors

I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never be a big-selling, mainstream artist because the public has gotten conditioned to hearing pop music in a certain way. And I don't do it that way.

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The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesi... by Nick Lowe

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

appeals artist numbers

I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven't written it. That's when I'm satisfied.

sound mind song

As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and n... by Nick Lowe

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

horrible body long

I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for me round the corner. Because I wasn't one of those very unusual people like Neil Diamond or Elton John, whose careers just seem to span the decades. I knew I wasn't one of them.

careers artist people

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

glasses lonely sound

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest t... by Nick Lowe

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

band military two

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.

enough waiting believe

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.

certain wanted order

Cruel to be kind means that I love you. by Nick Lowe

Cruel to be kind means that I love you.

love-you relationship mean

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to... by Nick Lowe

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

punk rocks musical

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

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

knows song

There's really never any sort of master plan. I find if I've got a couple of tunes that I think are possibilities, I phone everyone up and get them into the studio and we'll have a go at recording them.

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