#her

Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#became #being #chronically #control #could

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

#got #haven #i #may #number

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

#always #australia #because #become #dj

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside. ↗

— Stephen King

#busy #closely #coming #good #good story

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

#attention #else #feel #full #give

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

#been #class #consuming #created #into

Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around. ↗

— Joe Cocker

#around #europe #galloping #i #i am

There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly. ↗

— Tim Finn

#common #does #finally #had #happen

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#between #choose #conventional #down #i

The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#biggest #books #closest #coincidence #countries