Quotes from Robyn Hitchcock

Dreams are a scientific fact.

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

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

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

You can't censor people's dreams.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

Love is the distance between reality and pain.

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

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

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

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

Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.

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.

You can't censor people's dreams.

Dreams are a scientific fact.

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 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.

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.

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.