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When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.
Nick Lowe
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Nick Lowe
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: March 24
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Nicholas Drain Lowe
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I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.
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I don't have the faith now. I certainly believe in Jesus - you know, that he existed and he was a very nice man. And who can disagree with a simple philosophy of treat other people like you'd like to be treated yourself? It's absolutely - nothing I can disagree with that.
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Be a military flier or be in a band those were the two hippest things I could imagine.
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