Quotes by John Cooper Clarke

The very pointlessness of a sea walk is it's attractiveness to me.

It's miserable wearing black all the time, unless you're Johnny Cash.

The first time I heard rock'n'roll on a big sound system would have been at a fairground at the seaside. That's a hell of a sensory experience right there.

It was a tedious saying among hippies: if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. I was very much part of the problem.

No one wants to be a source of anxiety to everybody they know.

Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do that.

Poets are supposed to be underappreciated, don't you know? There is always a strange reaction to those who become successful in their own lifetime, and so I always felt lucky that I made the living I did out of it.

I had TB as a boy. They said my skeletal frame never developed properly.

If there's a gene, I got it from my ma. Her writing has this effortless quality.

I judge by appearances. People tell me I shouldn't.