Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.
Elvis CostelloObviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.
Elvis CostelloYou've got a chemistry class; I want a piece of your mind; You don't know what you started when you mixed it up with mine.
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