You know when you get into that thing where people want to discuss the relationship? I’d rather discuss what was on telly, avoid the issue, discuss anything other than the relationship. – Jarvis Cocker
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
I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women’s pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven’t tried the phone number. In times of stress I may. – Jarvis Cocker
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
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. – Jarvis Cocker
The main thing I don’t like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me. – Jarvis Cocker
I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I’m always slightly appalled by it when I do. – Jarvis Cocker
I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you’re never going to capture something that’s really natural – just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you’ve already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on. – Jarvis Cocker
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
You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it’s far enough in the past, that’s when you think, ‘Now I have to write something new.’ – Jarvis Cocker
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. – Jarvis Cocker
I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I’m not banking on it. – Jarvis Cocker
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. – Jarvis Cocker
The thing about radio is that it’s got an intimate feel. What I like is that you don’t have to give it your full attention – you can still do something else that the same time, whereas TV is all-enveloping: you have to sit there and pay attention to it, and give yourself over to it. You have to surrender to it, but you don’t with radio. – Jarvis Cocker
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
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
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