Robyn Hitchcock

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

Production is something I've never come to terms with.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

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.

So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.

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.

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

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.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

Dreams are a scientific fact.

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

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.

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

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.

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.

You can't censor people's dreams.

Everything is a reaction.

If you do things out of time you're weird.