With charm you’ve got to get up close to see it; style slaps you in the face.

- John Cooper Clarke

To convey one’s mood in seventeen syllables is very diffic

- John Cooper Clarke

Poverty - the one thing money can't buy

- John Cooper Clarke

As they used to say on Stingray, ‘Anything can happen in the next half hour’. I’ve always tried to live with that thought in mind.

- John Cooper Clarke