I use the name and the thought very, very easily as a sort of comfort - as a kind of comfort, in some way. And in that way, it's just like having a friend, I suppose.

Nick Lowe

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These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

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In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether... by Nick Lowe

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

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

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

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

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

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If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s.

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

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I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I... by Nick Lowe

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

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When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until... by Nick Lowe

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

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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.

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When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a... by Nick Lowe

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

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Even if I was really prolific - which I'm not - I think I'd always put at least a couple of covers on my record. I think it's a sort of healthy thing to do. It shows that you're not totally self-obsessed.

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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.

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So where are the strongAnd who are the trusted?And where is the harmony?Sweet harmony -'cause each time I feel it slippin away, it just makes me wanna cry:What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?

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Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent.

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I realized sometime in the early '80s that if I didn't do something - like planning for the future in a way, a kind of pension or something - that if I didn't do something there and then, I was going to be condemned to forever present my three years as a pop star, condensed, as a stage act for the rest of my life. Because that's normally what happens to people in the pop business.

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It was the 1950s, you know, and they had a ray gun, which was basically a flashlight with a sort of trigger on it. And it buzzed and a red light, you know, came on. But anyway we all had one - Davy Crockett hat.

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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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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.

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The older I get, the more I think it's this listening. You listen for it, and you have a bit of patience. And it'll come until it sounds - to me, the best songs I've written, I think, are ones that I can't hear anything - any of myself in it. It sounds like a cover song, like somebody else's song - really something you've stolen wholesale off a radio that you've listened to in someone else's flat.

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