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
There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark. It scares you witless but with time you see things clear and… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon be time to go but it's darker than you know in… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The people with the most resources are the federal government. If you can invade a country halfway across the world in a… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Well, T Bone's had a remarkable career as a producer since the time that we first worked together. He was dividing his… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and… — 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
