Elvis Costello

And, of course, it was thrilling because I was a huge fan of his.

But he hadn't been asked to turn up as a 10-year-old boy, had I been.

I was asked to turn up as a 32-year-old guy that knew something, you know.

Here's the thing that I think we both of us didn't –

want there to be silence uh so we both came with half finished songs okay that's the other one to complete it so that's how we got rolling the first song that of mine of my instigation was veronica so that was a pretty good starting point and the second one that we wrote yeah and the second one was my brave face both of those were top 20 american hits

So we really thought that we were like, bloody hell, this is, you know, we're going to be like actually writing hits here because you could tell right away those were really, you know, good songs.

Then we wrote a bunch more.

And then we tried recording them and I had a lot of fun doing that.

It was great.

That's okay, yeah?

I saw him recently and I was saying, you know, I remember when we were trying to record some other tracks and we had a disagreement about something and I got in a bit of a snit about it and

I said, I better go for a walk.

And when I came back, he was singing something else that we'd written.

And he was singing it so unbelievably well that I just went, okay, whatever you want.

You have it your way.

I can't fight that.

You know, it was just so amazing.

And so we had a real time.

I'm really proud of those songs.

I agree with you on that.