Robyn Hitchcock Quotes

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice.

There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.

It's the irrational things that interest me.

In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

I've always been interested in why do people behave in certain ways which are crazy from a normal point of view.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .

I think psychology would be an easy transition and figuring out the human mind somehow.

I'm curious about what makes people do things that they do, unless it's absolutely terrifying to me.

All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems.

At night my mind does not much care if what it thinks is here or there. It tells me stories, it invents and makes up things that don't make sense. I do not know why it does this stuff. The real world seems quite weird enough.

Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.

Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.

Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.

Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of... the term 'lateral thinking' has been coined to describe this orther sort of thinking; 'vertical thinking' is used to denote the conventional logical process.

They say dreams are the windows of the soul-take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.