D. C. Jarvis Quotes

The cost of independence has dropped.

I'll change to a dragon, then you'll be sorry.

Money can be made later, but time is lost forever.

Probably the greatest thing working in games is watching someone enjoy your game and to think, "Wow I had a part in giving someone that enjoyment".

Video games are ubiquitous now.

I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets.

Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.

You can do anything when you're famous. That's why famous people are so dumb.

I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.

Anyone who thinks they're sexy needs their head checked.

Everybody's a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disorder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I'd rather think it as parts of personality.

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.

I believe that humans adapt to circumstance. The Internet is quite an unprecedented circumstance, so it's going to take people a while to get their heads around it.

You have to create a bespoke cultural environment. I know this may be a kind of thing that an old person says, but I feel to quite a large extent I was reared by the TV I watched.

You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.

But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there.

Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.

I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time.

I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever.

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

[Jeffrey Lewis is] The best lyricist working in the US today.

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.

People who make good music aren't necessarily nice people.

I would rather kill myself than play my own music... I can't stand it when people do that.

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isnt it?

There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.

I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.

I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.

The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.

It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.

I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.

A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

I think the credit crunch is a brilliant thing. We should all stop moaning and start celebrating. When times are tough, it's an opportunity to start looking at life in a different way.

Hollywood is called Hollywood, but holly doesn't grow there. Right from the start it's based on a lie. But it's a very seductive lie, and we're still entranced by it.

Paris is like a beautiful woman, but she's very haughty, she's not interested in you. She's very nice to look at but you can't quite get it together with her.

I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.

In a song you can kind of stage-manage everything so that it puts you in a good light. And once a song is recorded, it always performs well.

I wish that Google would realize its own power in the cause of free speech. Google lives and profits by free speech and must use its considerable power to become a better guardian of it.

I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow

Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.)

Curious how even a little time can alter so much.

There are many things in this unhappy world we cannot alter. We must learn to live with our lot and find peace with ourselves.

Yours is a true heart, Vespertilio. Beware of it, for it is surely too large for thy chest to contain.

I come to call down my destiny - and it is tall and dangerous!