Elvis Costello Quotes

Don't start me talking
I could talk all night
My mind goes sleepwalking
While I'm putting the world to right.

Oh, I said 'I'm so happy, I could die.'
She said 'Drop dead,' then left with another guy.

It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.

So don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think
And don't try to read my mind because it's full of disappearing ink

Turn up the TV. No one listening will suspect, even your mother won't detect it, no your father won't know. they think that I've got no respect but everything means less than zero.

Paul McCartney was at the microphone singing Ricky Nelson’s “Lonesome Town” to an almost empty Royal Albert Hall. Many of the other performers on the bill were waiting to rehearse but had melted away to the edges of the auditorium to give him some space. Neil Finn was talking to Johnny Marr, Sinéad O’Connor was there with her son, and the emcee for the night, Eddie Izzard, was looking over the running order with Chrissie Hynde. George Michael arrived quietly and was waiting patiently for his turn to sing.

History repeats the old conceits

It's a breath you took too late.
It's a death that's worse than fate.

Oliver's army is here to stay Oliver's army are on their way And I would rather be anywhere else But here today.

Oh, I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused.

Alison, I know this world is killing you. Oh, Alison, my aim is true. My aim is true.

WARNING: This album contains country & western music and may cause offence to narrow minded listeners.

While you lie in the dark, afraid to breathe and you beg and you promise And you bargain and you plead Sometimes you confuse me with Santa Claus It's the big white beard I suppose. Im going up to the pole, where you folks die of cold I might be gone for a while if you need me.

Once I had recognized that it was not my vocation to write a happy ending, I did my damnedest to avoid one entirely. I once referred to this process as “Messing up my life, so I could write stupid little songs about it,” and I can’t improve on that description here, but then songs are never exactly taken from life.

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.