Robyn Hitchcock
Dreams are a scientific fact.Collection: Dreams
I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.Collection: Dreams
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.Collection: Intelligence
You can't censor people's dreams.Collection: Dreams
You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.
Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
If you do things out of time you're weird.
Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.
After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.
In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.
Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.
One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.
Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.
Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.
Everything is a reaction.
As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.
If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up.
As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.
We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.
I was always jealous of something getting more attention.
I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.
The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.
So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.
When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.
I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.
After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.
Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.
I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.
I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.
Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.
An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.
Production is something I've never come to terms with.
There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.Collection: Philosophy
I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.Collection: Book
If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.Collection: Christian
Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.Collection: Unbearable
Love is the distance between reality and pain.Collection: Sad
Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular.Collection: Instinct
Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.Collection: Guitar
People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.Collection: Beautiful
Let there be more darknessCollection: Darkness
The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country.Collection: Country
If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties.Collection: Smart
I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.Collection: Thinking
I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.Collection: Couple
I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.Collection: People
People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.Collection: Technology
Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.Collection: Queens
Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box.Collection: Found You