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

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

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.

What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

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.

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

I loved Christmas. We had a really great time. But there wasn't - it was all - you had to be happy with, you know, an orange and a couple of walnuts, you know, in your stocking.

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

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

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

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.

We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world

It's like driving a car with your foot on the brake.

Try to get the important things right at all the time, even at the cost of being right.

The worst time is always the present.

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing. The girls would say something to you.

The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.

The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.

To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding

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