I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work at all. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
You think you're alone until you realize you're in it. Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“Oh, I said 'I'm so happy, I could die.' She said 'Drop dead,' then left with another guy.” — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“..As you check your effects, check your reflection, I’m so affected in the face of your affection” — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“So you take her to the pictures, trying to become a fixture. Inch by inch trying to reach her, all the way… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“I could say it was the nights when I was lonely and you were the only one who'd talk. I could tell… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“I was watching while you're dancing away, our love got fractured in the echo and sway. How come everybody wants to be… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I'm not going to get too sentimental, like those other sticker valentines, 'cause I don't know if you are loving some body.… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“But it's easier to say 'I love you', than 'Yours, sincerely' I suppose.” — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
There is something wrong with you if you don't get angry about something. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
You swore you wouldn't shout. If it's not your punch, then it's your pout. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“I hear they're givin' you a bad reputation just because you've never been denied. You try to say you've done it all… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
There is something wrong with you if you don't get angry about something. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“Was it a millionaire who said "imagine no possessions?" A poor little schoolboy who said "we don't need no lessons?” — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
