Quotes from Robyn Hitchcock

Everything is a reaction.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

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.

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

I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.

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

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.

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.

If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.

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

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.

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.

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.