English - Musician | March 24, 1949 -
If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination.
Nick Lowe
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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.
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As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.
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Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.
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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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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 like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.
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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.
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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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I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records.
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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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In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.
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