107 Quotes by John Cooper Clarke

I crack myself up. Even I don't know what I'm going to say next.

The main thing a poem ought to be is musical. It should be rhythmic. You should hear it as a musical piece in your head as you're writing it.

It took me 30 years for people to consider me an overnight success.

Doris Day was the perfect woman.

The '80s were a lost decade.

I eat like a pig. Tripe is the only thing I won't eat.

A much underrated garment, the jegging: they never need ironing and they hold their colour.

At the beginning, there was no chance I'd get published so I thought I'd give it a go live. I had to perform in rock band places and working men's clubs, where you wouldn't expect to find poetry. I ploughed a lonely furrow.

There've been lots of positive changes in the city since I worked at Salford Tech in the seventies, and I'm pleased to be known as Salford's Bard and to have helped put it on the map.