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

People who make good music aren't necessarily nice people.

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.

I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly.

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

But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there.

We live in an age where people are kind of a bit obsessed with celebrity and stuff. You can't help but be curious about it.

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

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

It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.

Will you see Pulp again? Who knows. I'm not stoking those particular rumours.

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isn't it?

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

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.

There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.

A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.

I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.

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

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

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.

In a song you can kind of stage-manage everything so that it puts you in a good light. And once a song is recorded, it always performs well.

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

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

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

I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.

You can do anything when you're famous. That's why famous people are so dumb.

I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.

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

We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time.

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

I would rather kill myself than play my own music ... I can't stand it when people do that.

Silver Machine still sounds really modern with all the white noise. It's a bit punky in a way. They were ahead of their time.

For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.

Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.

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

Anyone who thinks they're sexy needs their head checked.