I work very hard on getting the songs ... direct and examined,

You gotta know what the songs are about, otherwise you don't know how to play them. If it's about a rough guy, you play it a bit rougher or something like that.

Of course, I have no idea what you know and don't know. But I have managed to introduce these songs even to people who listen to a lot of music; maybe you have somehow managed to have missed them.

When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.

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.

Basher: The Best of Nick Lowe,