Jarvis Cocker Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“I'm not very keen on ageing. I'm not keen on the physical decay. I probably am quite vain. I think you want to try and look OK for the benefit of other people.”

“There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.”

“To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. I guess it was just because I was really into music as a child, and I wanted it to say more. It was the thing, wasn't it? And now it isn't.”

“Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.”

“I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.”

“I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.”

“A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.”

“But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there.”

“I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.”

“I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.”