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 More Quotes by Jarvis Cocker More Quotes From Jarvis Cocker I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will. Jarvis Cocker consistent ifs I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do. Jarvis Cocker political writing song I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person. Jarvis Cocker sexuality age might But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there. Jarvis Cocker notebook littles ideas A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative. Jarvis Cocker conservative alternatives government 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 communication chocolate song 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 brain people thinking Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag. Jarvis Cocker important enough thinking I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it. Jarvis Cocker afterlife banking believe 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 situation class people Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing. Jarvis Cocker singing noise easy I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time. Jarvis Cocker girl trying thinking I'd never really wanted to have a really 'private' life before. But when somebody starts delving into it and printing details through the tabloids for shagging people you shouldn't have shagged, then that probably made me shy away a bit more from giving too much away. Jarvis Cocker details giving people I've stuck to the same things for twenty years. I try to look like a slightly edgy geography teacher. Like what a geography teacher looked like when I was in school. Cords, sensible shoes and glasses. I never liked geography much as a subject though. In fact the only geography teacher I can remember from school was a woman who had a moustache. Jarvis Cocker glasses teacher school Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life. Jarvis Cocker doe sex reality 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 sentimental sadness song I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever. Jarvis Cocker lovely guy people I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together. Jarvis Cocker proud together book 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 phones stress numbers 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 distance feelings people
