Elvis Costello

So you've got as long as it takes to get the coherent take.

That's the truth of it.

I'm not a great one on sentimentalizing people.

I was very sad that Shane went because I genuinely, as an admirer of his, wanted to hear what the second act was.

you know what the other songs were that maybe some sort of different perspective.

Yeah.

People that are really enamored of the kind of doomed hero legend.

Yeah.

I used to feel that way about Graham Parsons, but really now I've sort of, I think...

I just wish he'd not taken junk and, you know, had lived a bit longer and not wrecked his health and would have sung some other different types of songs.

I would have liked to have heard them.

That's what I feel about Shane.

No disrespect at all to the family or anybody that loves him.

I'm not sentimental about him at all.

I really admired him.

And I think Rainy Night...

I'm really glad that Bruce did that on the tribute record.

I think that's the measure of how, you know, and I know Dylan did it when he played in the last time in Dublin and that was, I heard, I saw a tape of that and it sounded like Bob had written it.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.