I've had a few jobs, but if you want to be a writer, you're better off getting a job that doesn't require… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
It amazes me there are movies about writers... such inert, uneventful lives. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
If there's a gene, I got it from my ma. Her writing has this effortless quality. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
I write with pen and paper. I don't have a mobile or computer, because I know how great they are. If I… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
You can always find something better to do than writing when you're at home. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
The main thing a poem ought to be is musical. It should be rhythmic. You should hear it as a musical piece… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
When the punk rock thing happened, I thought, 'Right, I have one chance here to be seen as part of some wider social phenomenon.' — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
To make the hips the focal point of a pair of trousers is, to me, a fashion mistake. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to any artist is surrounding themselves with people who love everything they do. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
The first time I heard rock'n'roll on a big sound system would have been at a fairground at the seaside. That's a hell of… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
As they used to say on Stingray, ‘Anything can happen in the next half hour’. I’ve always tried to live with that thought in… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
It was a tedious saying among hippies: if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. I was very much part… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
From social pariah to King of the World? It's taken 45 years, so I've been able to adjust to it! — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
Well, I've obviously been a great source of inspiration to the academic population of Salford! They're citing me as a major contribution to their… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
They're very different things, a poem and a song, you wouldn't think they would be, but they are. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
