3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Jarvis Cocker 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.
3 December 2020 Jarvis Cocker 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.
3 December 2020 Jarvis Cocker When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn’t exist anymore.
3 December 2020 Jarvis Cocker I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn’t it? That’s the place where your dreams will come true. It’s an act of faith now they think that’s going to sort things out.
3 December 2020 Jarvis Cocker 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.
3 December 2020 Jarvis Cocker 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.
3 December 2020 Jarvis Cocker You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock – that you’ve still got it.
3 December 2020 Jarvis Cocker I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
3 December 2020 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.
