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Nick Lowe Biography

Nicholas Drain Lowe (born 24 March 1949), known as Nick Lowe, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer.

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I don't have the faith now. I certainly believe in Jesus - you know, that he existed and he was a very nice man. And who can disagree with a simple philosophy of treat other people like you'd like to be treated yourself? It's absolutely - nothing I can disagree with that.

Disagree, Existed, Jesus, Nice, People, Philosophy

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

Musical, Punk, Rocks, Supposed, Thing

I'm really lucky that I've had a little gang of people who I've been involved with for a long time. . . I've been really lucky to have a gang of people who have always been there to encourage me to get on with it. Styles come and go, but I try not to take any notice of that.

Come, Gang, Long, People, Style, Time

So where are the strongAnd who are the trusted?And where is the harmony?Sweet harmony -'cause each time I feel it slippin away, it just makes me wanna cry:What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?

Away, Causes, Funny, Peace, Sweet, Understanding

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.

Attitude, Full, People, Play, World

And as Craig Brown - he's an English humorist, not a comedian but he's just a writer and humorist - I'm quite a fan of. I heard him talking in a rather similar way on the radio. He said I'm the sort of person - I can't remember exactly what he said, but it was rather interesting - he said I'm the sort of person that can be reduced to tears in an empty church and feel like I'm the CEO of the Devil's organization in a full one, and I tend to feel like that as well. I love empty churches and going into them looking around, but I'm not a churchgoer at all.

Brown, Churchgoer, Humorist, Interesting, Organization, Talking

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.

Character, Life, Stripes, Writing

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.

Interesting, Lack, Remotely, Taken, Talking

I mean, the way I'm talking, it sounds like I'm - you know, I'm about to go out and sign up for the nearest seminary, and you'll never see or hear from me again. But it's a hard thing to talk about really 'cause I'm not at all sure myself about it. But I've got a very, very simple sort of outlook to it. Yeah, that's all I can say, really.

Mean, Outlook, Simple, Talking

You've got to really know your song, inside and out.

Know, Knows, Song

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.

Done, Interesting, Mean, Say, Talking, Thinking

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

Band, Flier, Hippest, Military, Two

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

Domination, Happy, Interested, Welcome, World

I realized sometime in the early '80s that if I didn't do something - like planning for the future in a way, a kind of pension or something - that if I didn't do something there and then, I was going to be condemned to forever present my three years as a pop star, condensed, as a stage act for the rest of my life. Because that's normally what happens to people in the pop business.

Future, People, Realized, Stars, Years

I think the best songs that come to me are ones that you sort of listen for. The ones - when I listen to some of my old stuff, I can tell when I had a good idea, but I forced it through, and I can hear myself - the bit that I've written, which sounds clunkier than the stuff that just sort of comes.

Idea, Ideas, Song, Stuff, Tell, Thinking

My latest theory is that it's - well, I describe it as, like, being in an apartment with kind of thin walls. And in the apartment next door, they've got a radio tuned constantly on - tuned to a really cool radio station. It's on all the time. And you can just hear it coming through the wall all the time.

Coming, Describe, Door, Doors, Radio, Wall

I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really know. Sometimes you can do it and sometimes you can't. It's really peculiar.

Ask, Know, Mystery, Peculiar, People

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

Body, Horrible, Long, Sort, Spectacle

And then, one day, they program a new tune, and it really catches your ear, you know, because you can be doing the washing up or something, you know, in your apartment and suddenly you go, whoa, what are they playing in there? And you run to the wall, but it's finished - but the song's finished. You only heard enough of it just the pique your interest. And you never know when they're going to play it again, of course, like a normal radio station.

Ear, Like, Running, Song, Wall, Whoa

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

Appeals, Artist, Artists, Infinitesimal, Number, Numbers

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