“That’s the reason why I’ll never be a household name, because the records that I make are—I really like the sort of homemade kind of thing that they’ve got about them. I love it when I hear it on other people’s records, but it makes the general public nervous. As soon as they hear that they think it’s going to fall to bits and spoil their day…they like that metronomic thing that makes them know that everything is going to be OK.”

– Nick Lowe, to Todd Barry. (via)