298 Quotes by Elvis Costello

Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.

Even in a perfect world, where everyone was equal I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequal

I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.

Serious music usually doesn't pay.

I really thought twice about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when that came in. I always was of a mind that it's an inherently stupid idea to put something like that in a glass case.

You'll never be alone in the bone orchard.

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned to country music, like The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, but particularly through The Byrds because of Gram Parsons, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman (with their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo). They kind of introduced English kids to Merle Haggard and George Jones and the Louvins (brothers Charlie and Ira).

You can be addicted to misery the same way as you can be addicted to drugs.