Jarvis Cocker Quotes

We are all a little weird. And we like to think that there is always someone weirder. I mean, I am sure some of you are looking at me and thinking, “Well, at least I am not as weird as you,” and I am thinking, “Well, at least I am not as weird as the people in the loony bin,” and the people in the loony bin are thinking, “Well, at least I am an orange”.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

I'm a bit weird.

I've definitely accepted the fact that I'm not normal.

I think we're all pretty odd.

I'm a nut, but not just a nut.

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

A lot of talented people have some quirks, y'know? And bless them for that. I'd rather have Tourette's than be someone boring.

Humans are the most complicated, nuanced things that exist. We can't be reduced to labels or summed up with five traits - even if they are the Big Five.

It's our flaws who make us who we are.

I think the one thing of me that they really wanted to capitalize on is my dorkiness

Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.

I think a neurotic learns from their mistakes. A psychotic does not.

I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.

The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.

There are certain models who might not be considered beautiful. I think personality is more important than looks.

Imperfections create character.

If you think all men are created equal, you haven't seen Bo Diddley in the shower.

If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you. Willie Nelson

There's so much shame involved in not being like everyone else. But I learned that the things that made me unique were good. Dealing with problems can be awful. But in the end I got positive results. I don't think I would have been a writer if I didn't have anxiety.

All of us are crazy in one or another way.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

It's interesting to see how we are all uniquely different.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.