116 Quotes by Nick Lowe

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.

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records.

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

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

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.

I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.

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.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.