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I think life is more interesting when everybody's jumbled up together. When people separate out into cliques and things, it's okay, but it's a bit limiting. You can always learn things from other people. This is my theory.

Jarvis Cocker

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Jarvis Cocker
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 19
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Sheffield
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There are some quite funny things about getting famous and stuff, but I think there comes a point where you have to think to yourself, Well, am I doing this because I want to go to a party and meet Britney Spears? Or am I doing it because I want to create something that excites me?
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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.
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Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.
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A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.
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There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.
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I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.
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It's funny how you can intensely investigate one very particular thing, and then it can lead you to other things through links and stuff like that. It's like you're going on this selective, very precise detour. But then it is strange because with it being so quick, there must be a difference.
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I do want to have that feeling that people are actively involved in something, rather than just consuming something. I suppose that's what it comes down to, because it's such a dominant capitalist society, everything becomes a consumer product. And I don't think that's really appropriate to the creative arts, really.
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Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.
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There seems to be a contradiction in the fact that there's more music around and more channels or downloading music or more channels on TV, and yet at the same time, in some ways it doesn't seem to be as vital as it once was. It seems to be just another entertainment option or lifestyle enhancement aid or something.
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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.
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If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go into the air, and then they go into somebody's body through their ears, so it's kind of like penetrating somebody. It's kind of like having sex with somebody - but, obviously, from a great distance.
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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.
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I believe that humans adapt to circumstance. The Internet is quite an unprecedented circumstance, so it's going to take people a while to get their heads around it.
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Hollywood is called Hollywood, but holly doesn't grow there. Right from the start it's based on a lie. But it's a very seductive lie, and we're still entranced by it.
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You can do anything when you're famous. That's why famous people are so dumb.
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I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.
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