116 Quotes by Nick Lowe

When I find a cover song that I like, I’ll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.

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 with that. I think it’s much more interesting to say just what you mean.

London was a real dump in the 70s, when it belonged to me and my friends, because, like most cities, you kind of hand them off. You’re in charge for a bit and then you don’t go out anymore. You say, “Oh god, it’s going to be too crowded.”

I’m an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven’t written it. That’s when I’m satisfied.

I’ve always felt quite like an outsider. I don’t really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.

You want to sing this song. And so it goes on until eventually, after – well, however long it can take – sometimes a few days, sometimes months – you piece the whole thing together.

Later in life, suddenly, if you’re an outsider, it’s something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people’s nerves.

To a certain extent, yes, we do. But there’s – but there’s a very limited menu. There’s only about sort of 20 songs that you hear on rotation.

The older I get, there doesn’t seem to be anything remotely more interesting than talking about love and the lack of it and what happens when it’s taken away from someone who’s had it.