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Jarvis Cocker

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.

— Jarvis Cocker funny

Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

— Jarvis Cocker imagination

In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.

— Jarvis Cocker life

Anyone who thinks they're sexy needs their head checked.

— Jarvis Cocker sex

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

— Jarvis Cocker money

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.

— Jarvis Cocker time

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

— Jarvis Cocker you

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

— Jarvis Cocker will

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.

— Jarvis Cocker music

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isn't it?

— Jarvis Cocker people

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

— Jarvis Cocker life

You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.

— Jarvis Cocker age

Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.

— Jarvis Cocker relationship

I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and the inconsistencies, that's what makes it interesting. I've always striven to be as sloppy as possible.

— Jarvis Cocker passion

I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things.

— Jarvis Cocker nature

Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.

— Jarvis Cocker past

I think the credit crunch is a brilliant thing. We should all stop moaning and start celebrating. When times are tough, it's an opportunity to start looking at life in a different way.

— Jarvis Cocker life

I'd always fought against presenting radio really, because my father was a radio DJ in Australia. He's just recently retired. And I kind of didn't want to follow in his footsteps. But I suppose, as we all find as we become older, to some extent we do all become our parents.

— Jarvis Cocker present

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.

— Jarvis Cocker art

The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.

— Jarvis Cocker time

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.

— Jarvis Cocker people

I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

— Jarvis Cocker life

Will you see Pulp again? Who knows. I'm not stoking those particular rumours.

— Jarvis Cocker art

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.

— Jarvis Cocker think

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

— Jarvis Cocker you

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where Im from. I wouldnt move back there, but its funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.

— Jarvis Cocker funny

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