As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle. Nick Lowe More Quotes by Nick Lowe More Quotes From Nick Lowe The idea was put to me, and my initial reaction was of slight sort of - I was slightly appalled, really, because in the U.K., we don't - we think it's all a bit vulgar, you know, doing Christmas or cashing in on Christmas. And there's a word we have for it, which is naff. And it's not exactly uncool. It really sort of means kind of vulgar and a bit - not very stylish. Nick Lowe mean ideas thinking It's like a little folk song. I think it might've been Harry Belafonte or someone like that who did it. And "Merry Christmas, Everybody" by Slade, which is a rock group - a rock-pop group who are very big over there. Nick Lowe merry-christmas song thinking "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day," which I actually recorded on "Quality Street" because I don't think anyone has ever covered it before. You hear it every single Christmas, and it is a great record. That's by Wizzard. It is a really great record, but I don't think anyone's ever covered it before, so I had to go it doing it differently. It's quite different from how the original goes. Nick Lowe quality wish thinking I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really know. Sometimes you can do it and sometimes you can't. It's really peculiar. Nick Lowe mystery peculiar people And then, one day, they program a new tune, and it really catches your ear, you know, because you can be doing the washing up or something, you know, in your apartment and suddenly you go, whoa, what are they playing in there? And you run to the wall, but it's finished - but the song's finished. You only heard enough of it just the pique your interest. And you never know when they're going to play it again, of course, like a normal radio station. Nick Lowe wall running song I mean, the way I'm talking, it sounds like I'm - you know, I'm about to go out and sign up for the nearest seminary, and you'll never see or hear from me again. But it's a hard thing to talk about really 'cause I'm not at all sure myself about it. But I've got a very, very simple sort of outlook to it. Yeah, that's all I can say, really. Nick Lowe simple talking mean I was very pleased when that came along, because it had a spiritual context, i found it moving, and I couldn't quite believe I'd come up with it. Nick Lowe top-news We thought, 'We'll never be able to do this. We'll have to put all this junk up in the studio to get ourselves in the mood -- Christmas trees and fake presents and all that sort of stuff,'. Nick Lowe top-news It's a much more forensic operation. Nick Lowe top-news It was a real gimlet-eyed, 'OK, next' (operation). Nick Lowe top-news It's a bit like seeing a silly film of yourself a bit drunk at a party and being forced to watch it. You recoil somewhat, it's not a place I like to go back to, reliving the old days, (though) I have a degree of affection for the little twit. Nick Lowe entertainment Talking about going on tour with (his Brit band) Rockpile or that sort of thing fills me with despair, so he's probably going to be on his own for the rest of it. Nick Lowe entertainment 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. Nick Lowe you learning business people They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening. Nick Lowe back good me said