Jarvis Cocker

I used to look at older people who bothered to still attend nightclubs and couldn't help but wonder why. Didn't they realise…

— Jarvis Cocker

If you wanted to be a creative person and you are confronted with the sum product of mankind's creativity up to this…

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I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but…

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You know when you get into that thing where people want to discuss the relationship? I'd rather discuss what was on telly,…

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Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly…

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I'm not very keen on ageing. I'm not keen on the physical decay. I probably am quite vain. I think you want…

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I think the credit crunch is a brilliant thing. We should all stop moaning and start celebrating. When times are tough, it's…

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I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That…

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One of the problems of our modern world is that there's a lot of things to work through, but, at some point,…

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What people have to make sure of is that they're not replicating something that already exists. You really have to ask yourself:…

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I love the Internet, but it's hard not to get lost in it. It's not like a book where you start and…

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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…

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Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way…

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There are some quite funny things about getting famous and stuff, but I think there comes a point where you have to…

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Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage,…

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I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of…

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I'd always fought against presenting radio really, because my father was a radio DJ in Australia. He's just recently retired. And I…

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I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But…

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Hollywood is called Hollywood, but holly doesn't grow there. Right from the start it's based on a lie. But it's a very…

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You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's…

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Often people poopoo melody as if it's a cheap trick to make people like things, but in my experience it's the hardest…

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As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't…

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For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If…

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

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I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural…

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It's funny how you can intensely investigate one very particular thing, and then it can lead you to other things through links…

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If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go…

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Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you…

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I believe that humans adapt to circumstance. The Internet is quite an unprecedented circumstance, so it's going to take people a while…

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Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And…

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I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to…

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There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the…

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I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where…

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I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just…

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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