Elvis Costello British Quotations

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong.

Well, 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.

Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.

I followed The Byrds a lot, and then when they did a country styled record it made me curious to know who these people were that they liked.