Explore Quotes by Jarvis Cocker

For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause.

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.

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

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

For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.

Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.

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.

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

The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually. I've found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better.

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else.

I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.

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'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.