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I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven't written it. That's when I'm satisfied.

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Nick Lowe
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: March 24
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Nicholas Drain Lowe
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