167 Quotes by Jarvis Cocker

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 if you take that pretend, faux moral standpoint, you end up with people in public life being completely boring. Like they’ve had their genitals removed.

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

I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn’t it? That’s the place where your dreams will come true. It’s an act of faith now; they think that’s going to sort things out.

What people have to make sure of is that they’re not replicating something that already exists. You really have to ask yourself: “Is there a point in me doing this? Has this already been said before? Is this moving things along or is this just adding to the giant pile of junk that’s already there?”

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.

One of the problems of our modern world is that there’s a lot of things to work through, but, at some point, everybody should take a pause from that and make something, so that it’s not just all one-way traffic.

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.

Culture shouldn’t be a pacifying thing. It shouldn’t be something that you just passively accept. I think it should be something that, in some ways, is quite disruptive – makes you think and question things, and actually sparks debate.