Nick Lowe Quotes

I want to win some awards, sell more records - just do whatever I want.

Money has never been my drive. I have never seen the shortage of money in my life, so for me, I don't want to buy a silk pillow or a private jet... My drive is to achieve more than what my grandfather achieved; my drive is to make a name for myself, get rid of this 'star son' tag that has been attached to me.

I want to become so successful that if I wanna fart on a track, I can, and it will sell.

I want to be successful. That's what I want to be.

Our music is being played on MTV and the radio. That's something that still blows us away. And we did it our way.

I started doing Bollywood and film music, and now, it has come to a point where I've started to say no. I want to do my own music. I have been there and done that, so I am not there to achieve that any more. I just want to put my music out there, and if people listen it, okay; if they don't, then fine.

I feel like I've done everything I can, and what I wanted to do.

I've never been ambitious about recording.

Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Every song, every T-shirt, is absolutely a pure expression of what we want to do. And it connects.

A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.

This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.

And I mean, I'm established. So I'm not worried about having a hit at this point in my career.

I don't really have goals as far as, I want to be on a cover or something like that.

I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.

It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.

When I was 11 years old, I thought, 'All I really wanna be able to do is my own comic book,' and I'm doing it. I don't have any other real ambitions. I have nothing to conquer at all.

Being famous for fame's sake wasn't the goal when I co-founded the Go-Go's. I just wanted to sing and have a laugh.

I want to trace my own path by doing the things I have been doing, winning titles, reaching goals.

I never said to myself, 'I'm going to be the greatest.' I just wanted to do my own thing.

When I first set out to do it, I wanted to be a working actor, and now it seems like it's superseded even my dreams.

I think, ever since I started doing well commercially, it's always been like, 'Oh, well, you're only where you are because of your dad, and it must be because of Mark Ronson and Greg Kurstin that you do well.' It's just everyone apart from me is responsible for the songs that I've written selling millions around the world.

I've always strived to be successful, not famous.

Maybe this is a way of gaslighting myself, but I think of it this way: In certain circles, my grandpa was considered to be one of the seminal directors of the 20th century. I'm never going to be that. So I might as well do whatever I want.