107 Quotes by John Cooper Clarke

I love singing. I'm a great singer.

I love being on my bike, but I don't consider that a sport: it's too pleasant.

I had a million jobs before I managed to make a living out of poetry.

When the punk rock thing happened, I thought, 'Right, I have one chance here to be seen as part of some wider social phenomenon.'

When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow.

My favourite writers are columnists.

The one thing I got right was that I already looked like a punk when punk arrived.

It amazes me there are movies about writers... such inert, uneventful lives.

You know how the Marvel Comics superheroes formed themselves into the Justice League of America - Batman, Flash and the rest. Why did Superman join? He never needed any help.