Quotes By Robyn Hitchcock

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

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

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

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

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.

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

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

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

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 you do things out of time you're weird.

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

Everything is a reaction.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Dreams are a scientific fact.

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.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

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.

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

As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

You can't censor people's dreams.

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.

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