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.
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When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.
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I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.
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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.
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When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.
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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.
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You've got to really know your song, inside and out.
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Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.
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They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening.