Nick Lowe
Nick Lowe
Nicholas Drain "Nick" Loweis an English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth24 March 1949
believe church different
I'm very interested in religion and different religions, and I know quite a lot about it. I love gospel music, and I love going to churches, but the one drawback is that I don't actually believe in God. And it is quite a handicap, you know.
mean thinking talking
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.
years albums come-up
In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.
rocks musical punk
When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.
character writing stripes
I'm still kind of a hapless character in my everyday life. But when it comes to the writing, my influences are very old influences. I love American music of absolutely all stripes, including show tunes, advertising jingles, theme tunes from quiz shows, all kinds of American music.
taken talking interesting
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.
tv-shows atheism unhappy
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.
musician depth culmination
A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.
song direct hard
I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
cute character nashville
Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent.
attitude redneck musician
Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.
redneck records good-records
When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.
relationship love-you mean
Cruel to be kind means that I love you.
couple thinking phones
There's really never any sort of master plan. I find if I've got a couple of tunes that I think are possibilities, I phone everyone up and get them into the studio and we'll have a go at recording them.