If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would.

- Graham Parker

Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.

- Graham Parker

When I was a kid in the mid-'60s, I was what's known as a moddie boy, a prototype skinhead. You all had your hair like a crew cut, cropped, with suit…

- Graham Parker

I never learned music. I'm quite uneducated, and usually I sat in front of the TV, with soap operas on, in England. It was very inspiring for me, I'd…

- Graham Parker

Sadly, my socks are like snowflakes, no two are exactly alike.

- Graham Parker

When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.

- Graham Parker

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep t…

- Graham Parker

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doin…

- Graham Parker

Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.

- Graham Parker