Maybe there are luckier people than me, but I don't know who that would be. I feel pretty lucky. I've had a nice life - I don't know how I could be luckier.
More Quotes by John Cooper Clarke
If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson or Joseph Conrad. It's a glimpse of eternity. It invites rumination, the relentless whisper of the tide against the shore.
I love Charles Baudelaire. Him and Shakespeare are the only people I think are better than me.
It took me 30 years for people to consider me an overnight success.
My dad was an electrical engineer.
If you don't like The Ramones, you don't like rock 'n'roll. They're like The Beach Boys without the sea.
I had TB as a boy. They said my skeletal frame never developed properly.