Elvis Costello is all about the now

Elvis Costello tells Joe Nerssessian about rejecting nostalgia, his plans for a musical, and why you won’t catch him writing protest songs.

ELVIS Costello doesn’t have a relationship with nostalgia. The rock and roll star — who is 64 this year — has now been performing for more than four decades and boasts an impressive back catalogue that he regularly explores in live performance.

But just because he still sings those tracks, it doesn’t give him any sentimental affection for the past. Or so he argues down the phone from New York City.