When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical. — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio. — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
To a certain extent, yes, we do. But there's - but there's a very limited menu. There's only about sort of 20… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
You want to sing this song. And so it goes on until eventually, after - well, however long it can take -… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
There's really never any sort of master plan. I find if I've got a couple of tunes that I think are possibilities,… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young,… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth. — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
And religious music and the sort of symbolism of it and everything. But I had this idea. Actually, I sort of dreamt… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I think it's this listening. You listen for it, and you have a bit of patience.… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
So you can be about your business, and then on it comes again. And this time you're ready, and you've got a… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
I think the best songs that come to me are ones that you sort of listen for. The ones - when I… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
As soon as one of my records goes on, it makes a vast portion of the public nervous. They get spooked by… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
It's like a little folk song. I think it might've been Harry Belafonte or someone like that who did it. And "Merry… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
Well, this is shortly after the idea was put to me because it wasn't my idea to do a Christmas record. We… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
And then, one day, they program a new tune, and it really catches your ear, you know, because you can be doing… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
You try to make every word count, so there's no doubt what you're talking about. When you're young, you waffle away. Well, I'm done… — Nick Lowe Copy Share
And there were sort of three toys for boys and three toys for girls. And the boys I can remember was, well, there was… — Nick Lowe Copy Share
And then, one day, they program a new tune, and it really catches your ear, you know, because you can be doing the washing… — Nick Lowe Copy Share
I don't have the faith now. I certainly believe in Jesus - you know, that he existed and he was a very nice man.… — Nick Lowe Copy Share
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… — Nick Lowe Copy Share
But anyway, I was convinced that it would go away, you know. But the idea was that he was sitting on a flight -… — Nick Lowe Copy Share
Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves. — Nick Lowe Copy Share
As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle. — Nick Lowe Copy Share
And religious music and the sort of symbolism of it and everything. But I had this idea. Actually, I sort of dreamt it. I… — Nick Lowe Copy Share
They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening. — Nick Lowe Copy Share
A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth. — Nick Lowe Copy Share
I'm really lucky that I've had a little gang of people who I've been involved with for a long time... I've been really lucky… — Nick Lowe Copy Share
I'm still kind of a hapless character in my everyday life. But when it comes to the writing, my influences are very old influences.… — Nick Lowe Copy Share
In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not. — Nick Lowe Copy Share
So you can be about your business, and then on it comes again. And this time you're ready, and you've got a wine glass… — Nick Lowe Copy Share
