Jarvis Cocker

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day…

— Jarvis Cocker

I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.

— Jarvis Cocker

You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got…

— Jarvis Cocker

I don't think people should abuse the fact that they are in showbiz. You still have to be human. I think that's…

— Jarvis Cocker

I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.

— Jarvis Cocker

“I love your body 'cause I've lost my mind If you want someone to talk to, you're wasting your time If you…

— Jarvis Cocker

It’s interesting that most gadgets are called ‘iPhone’ and ‘iPod,’ with that ‘i’ prefix, which is ego. But most creativity is not…

— Jarvis Cocker

“And as I touch your shoulder tonight this room has become the centre of the entire universe.”

— Jarvis Cocker

Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.

— Jarvis Cocker

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isnt it?

— Jarvis Cocker

The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind…

— Jarvis Cocker

[Jeffrey Lewis is] The best lyricist working in the US today.

— Jarvis Cocker

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.

— Jarvis Cocker

Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.

— Jarvis Cocker

My basic position is that the more mixed the society and the more mobility there is in it, the better. That's what…

— Jarvis Cocker

I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and the inconsistencies, that's what…

— Jarvis Cocker

I was kind of reared by television, but the BBC, it still had that thing - and people are always invoking that…

— Jarvis Cocker

My route so far through life hasn't been particularly logical, or even thought out.

— Jarvis Cocker

Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd…

— Jarvis Cocker

There seems to be a contradiction in the fact that there's more music around and more channels or downloading music or more…

— Jarvis Cocker

I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

— Jarvis Cocker

I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being…

— Jarvis Cocker

Paris is like a beautiful woman, but she's very haughty, she's not interested in you. She's very nice to look at but…

— Jarvis Cocker

You try and imagine what it must have been like to first see something moving on a screen. It must have blown…

— Jarvis Cocker

You don't often hear people say, 'Oh, since he's been taking them drugs, he's such a nice person! He's really come out…

— Jarvis Cocker