70 Quotes by Robyn Hitchcock

After the Soft Boys I just didn’t want to work with any more guitarists.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn’t want to have to produce it by committee.

I’m good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and – I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical – beyond the day I die.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I’m most competent at.

I don’t really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I’ve tried a couple of times, and it just doesn’t work. But I get some good passages, so what I’m going to do is just take sections out of them.

I can tell how I’m doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they’d probably be similar each time, but they won’t be exactly the same. With the word, it’s probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.

If you do things out of time you’re weird.