There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.
Elvis CostelloCause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes.
Elvis CostelloReally the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.
Elvis Costello