Jarvis Cocker
British singer
Jarvis Cocker (born 19 September 1963) is an English singer-songwriter and frontman of the Britpop group Pulp.
Quotes
edit- There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.
- Interview with The Guardian [1] (1999)
- Everybody's a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disorder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I'd rather think it as parts of personality.
- Talking about his father and family relationships in South Bank Show (2007)
- Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.
- Interview with The Big Issue magazine (2006)
- Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And if you take that pretend, faux moral standpoint, you end up with people in public life being completely boring. Like they've had their genitals removed.
- Interview with The Guardian [2] (2011)
- I used to look at older people who bothered to still attend nightclubs and couldn’t help but wonder why. Didn’t they realize how foolish they looked? Of course, now that I’m one of those people myself, I have decided that such rules don’t apply to me.
- Interview with The Independent [3] (2009)
- Whilst something is unknown, it could be anything. It could be the worst thing ever and usually when something starts to happen. You realise it’s not so bad.
- Playing at Bluedot Festival (2019)