Nick Lowe Quotes

I have always wanted to do a Christmas album and covers.

Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

There are many examples of great songs that become more famous when they are covered.

I really want to do a cover of Joan Armatrading.

Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way.

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.

With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.

With any cover, I like to choose songs that affected me strongly already. So it's tough sometimes to take a song that you love so much and put your own spin on it because you get such a strong feeling from the original.

Songs that aren't even remotely connected to Christmas are now officially canonized Christmas tunes. 'Frosty the Snowman,' 'Jingle Bells' and 'Winter Wonderland' never mention anything religious but are still notches in Christmas' belt of musical dominance.

The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.'

So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact.

I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!

I like, 'I Believe In Father Christmas' - that is one of my favorites it is a lovely composition; 'Colder Than Winter' as well. There are so many beautiful songs.

Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.

There's some songs you can cover, and I've covered and butchered a few, but you can't do them all.

When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.

I've actually done a cover of 'Train in Vain' by The Clash with Viv Albertine - which was originally written about her.

Colin Blunstone did a cover of one of my songs, and the reason I liked it was he changed it completely from my version.

When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making them our own and kind of playing around with them. I came up with the idea of doing a cover of 'Wish You Were Here,' but we didn't really want it on the record.

I've been wanting to do a Christmas song for forever.

I sang 'Your Song' by Elton John, and Silva Screen Records were watching. They got in touch with my agent then had the idea of the Christmas album.

You're never going to improve on a Michael Jackson song if you cover it.

'Driving Home For Christmas' is just a great Christmas song because people are in their cars and driving home.

The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.