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People who make good music aren't necessarily nice people.
— Jarvis Cocker
It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.
— Jarvis Cocker
Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.
— Jarvis Cocker
I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly.
— Jarvis Cocker
[Jeffrey Lewis is] The best lyricist working in the US today.
— Jarvis Cocker
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.
— Jarvis Cocker
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.
— Jarvis Cocker
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.
— Jarvis Cocker
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.
— Jarvis Cocker
In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.
— Jarvis Cocker
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.
— Jarvis Cocker
I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.
— Jarvis Cocker
You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.
— 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 of the week.
— Jarvis Cocker
I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
— Jarvis Cocker
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.
— Jarvis Cocker
And as I touch your shoulder tonight this room has become the centre of the entire universe.
— Jarvis Cocker
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.
— 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'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.
— Jarvis Cocker
I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.
— Jarvis Cocker
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.
— Jarvis Cocker
We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.
— Jarvis Cocker
I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.
— Jarvis Cocker
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.
— 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 an expatriate, I suppose.
— Jarvis Cocker
I would rather kill myself than play my own music ... I can't stand it when people do that.
— Jarvis Cocker
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.
— Jarvis Cocker
For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.
— Jarvis Cocker
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.
— Jarvis Cocker
I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.
— Jarvis Cocker
Anyone who thinks they're sexy needs their head checked.
— Jarvis Cocker