Robyn Hitchcock Quotes

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

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.

I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

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

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

Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.

Love is the distance between reality and pain.

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's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular.

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.

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.

Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.

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

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

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

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.

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

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

Let there be more darkness

The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on