167 Quotes by Jarvis Cocker

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

I’d been thinking I’d have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you’re away.

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

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

For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you’re going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they’ve already decided the outcome, why don’t I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we’ll find something out. I’d rather just have an awkward pause.

I’m always nervous when I perform anyway.

Well, once you’ve resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you’re past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I’ll do it, you know.

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

I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women’s pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven’t tried the phone number. In times of stress I may.