107 Quotes by John Cooper Clarke

I'm not much of a team player when it comes to making records, I've got to say.

You can always find something better to do than writing when you're at home.

I love Charles Baudelaire. Him and Shakespeare are the only people I think are better than me.

Idleness - a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything - is the poet's friend.

I love being in a car.

I'm a great believer in the capsule wardrobe - a wardrobe where's there's a limited palate of black colours.

Maybe there are luckier people than me, but I don't know who that would be. I feel pretty lucky. I've had a nice life - I don't know how I could be luckier.

I'm not giving away sartorial secrets but the trousers I wear cost 19 quid.

I wish I could drive.