Robyn Hitchcock

I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.

— Robyn Hitchcock

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger…

— Robyn Hitchcock

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

— Robyn Hitchcock

People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future…

— Robyn Hitchcock

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has…

— Robyn Hitchcock

“You have to come from somewhere, but you don't have to go back there anymore.”

— Robyn Hitchcock

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's…

— Robyn Hitchcock

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and -…

— Robyn Hitchcock

I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

— Robyn Hitchcock

If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.

— Robyn Hitchcock

As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.

— Robyn Hitchcock

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

— Robyn Hitchcock

If you do things out of time you're weird.

— Robyn Hitchcock

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

— Robyn Hitchcock

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

— Robyn Hitchcock

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make…

— Robyn Hitchcock

Dreams are a scientific fact.

— Robyn Hitchcock

Production is something Ive never come to terms with.

— Robyn Hitchcock

Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.

— Robyn Hitchcock

If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants…

— Robyn Hitchcock

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

— Robyn Hitchcock

So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.

— Robyn Hitchcock

I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether…

— Robyn Hitchcock

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.

— Robyn Hitchcock

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

— Robyn Hitchcock