Article about Nick Lowe
Esquire, 1998-07-01
EC-relevant portion:

(by Mim Udovitch)
"Also not long ago, he made a million-plus in royalties when Curtis Stigers
covered one of his songs on the soundtrack for The Bodyguard.  (His songs
have also been covered by artists as various as Rod Stewart and Johnny Cash,
who is his former stepfather-in-law.)  He says he spent the Stigers money
financing his last U.S. tour and buying a couple shirts, and it seems
characteristically ingenuous both that he would say this and that he would
do it.  "Because he's not an arrogant bastard," says Elvis Costello, when
asked why Lowe's career hasn't been more traditionally rewarded.  "I've been
telling Nick he was great for years, since I was a punk.  Literally a
punk--not a punk as you think of, with spiky hair, but just a kid walking
about like, 'Ello, mister, you're in a band. Ow do you do that then?'  But
just being a real person, it isn't natural to want to go out there telling
everyone what's what.  It isn't his style.  You just have to dig his mood,
as the record says."