Elvis Costello Quotes

People used to think, because of our name, that we were a hip-hop group.

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

I've heard people say I'm a Curry and that helped me get where I am. Sometimes I think it's the opposite.

I definitely don't wanna be known as the 'Up Down' guy. I love singing that song, I love that song, but yeah, there's definitely more to me than just a party for sure.

I'm a footballer first and foremost and I want to be remembered for what I do on the pitch.

You are what your record is.

Tina Snow' was more turnt up than anything I ever dropped, it's my alter ego.

I'm not a shock jock at all.

Action is not really my genre, but it's what people expect out of me. And it works, too.

I know that some people view me as a bit manufactured. But I can't be Whitney Houston: somebody who is polite and perfect and appeals to your mother and your grandfather.

Some people assume I'm a spoilt trust fund kid who's never had to work for anything, while others think the best of me because of the good experience they had with my grandfather. It's difficult to digest the fact that they may never see me for who I am.

Musicians want to be heard. So I'm not hiding. But I do like to leave it there onstage and be myself, in that sense. Because some people carry it with them.

Being a public figure, you cannot make everyone happy. Some people will criticise your actions, and I cannot stop expressing my opinion based on that.

Some people know me as the bad boy of professional poker and call me The Poker Brat. Sometimes I deserve that nickname, but not always.

Some people do believe that any publicity is good publicly, but I don't. I would never want to be in news for rumours.

I never wanted the fans to remember me as anything but my best.

I never tried to put myself in situations where I had to be anything other than what people saw on TV.

It's unbelievable how good Jon Jones really is. It's the minute he steps out of the octagon, you never know what's going to happen.

I've heard players, and I'm talking about some of the best players in the league, question whether I've taken steroids or not. Some of the things I hear are pretty funny, and some people are idiots, frankly.

What I need to do is establish myself as Oliver Burke and not as the new Gareth Bale. To do that I need to work hard in La Liga.

Everyone thinks I am exactly like the characters I play.

Some people don't like me at all. But... whatever. It comes with the territory.

It's always good to show that what you're doing is who you are, what you see on film in the regular season is what you're seeing at the Senior Bowl.

The thing was, if I had a bad game, I was 'the Man United reject.' If I had a good game, it was 'Man United star on loan.' And I just thought, 'I don't need that anymore.' One minute, I was hero; the next minute, I was zero. I just didn't need it. I'd rather just play football.

Some people have such strong memories of me as a young actor, that it's hard to see me as anything else.