Elvis Costello Quotations

There's no such thing as an original sin.

Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.

I woke up and one of us was crying.

Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers.

It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard.

It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for.

I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years.And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

I wanna bite the hand that feeds me. I wanna bite that hand so badly. I want to make them wish they'd never seen me.

I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.