Nick lowe

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

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.

They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening.

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

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

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

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.

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.

As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.