167 Quotes by Jarvis Cocker

The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up – and then, if it’s not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.

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

I’d never really wanted to have a really ‘private’ life before. But when somebody starts delving into it and printing details through the tabloids for shagging people you shouldn’t have shagged, then that probably made me shy away a bit more from giving too much away.

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

Every woman I’ve had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I’m at home, I clam up and won’t discuss anything intimate or personal.

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.

I’m sure Sting’s a lovely guy. It’s just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever.

If you wanted to be a creative person and you are confronted with the sum product of mankind’s creativity up to this moment in history, Internet is pretty daunting, like, “Where can I fit my voice in amongst all that?”

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.