Jarvis Cocker Quotes

To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

No, I am not interested in women or sex or anything.

I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s.

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

Well, when you write about people of a certain age ... we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.

I don't think anybody should be celibate - and that goes for priests as well as nuns. I don't even like to alter a cat. We should all live life to the fullest, and sex is a part of life.

I didn't sleep with anyone till I was 23.

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

Try to force celibacy upon yourself and your dreams will become sexual, they will have a quality of sexuality.

In the name of celibacy, sex has been repressed for centuries and you have become just full of sexuality. Rather than transcending it you are boiling within.

There's no reason women in their late 30s and 40s shouldn't be thought of sexually.

Some feel old at 45.

I feel as though going into middle age really suits me.

We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves.

Celibacy is exhausting.

If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.

Chaste is she whom no one has asked.

Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness.

Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.