22 Quotes by Julian Cope

I’d spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

Maybe rock ‘n’ roll isn’t music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain’t the way they think it is.

The TV licence people just can’t believe we don’t have a television. I’m a bolshie git. I shout at them things like, ‘I don’t need TV, I’m an intellectual.’

I signed contracts I didn’t think were a good idea but people around me said it was the way forward. It saddens me that I’ll never own my first album ever, which sucks.