Jarvis Cocker Quotes

If I want to experience the life of an ordinary person, I cannot do it in Asia.

I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life - quotidian life. What happens to a person during a working day, marital relations, and stuff like that.

Reality really isn't as dull as it's cracked up to be.

The world I describe is about how people live now. It's not about zany people with unlimited, inexplicable funds in an apartment somewhere.

Not everybody's life is like 'Gossip Girl.'

I am a normal girl from a humble, middle class family.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

I can tell you I'm pretty middle-class.

I'm a proud product of the American middle class.

Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

I'm a working class lad.

I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.

I write about, more or less, everything I can think of, that is I stretch my imagination as far as it'll go. I am kind of stuck in the middle as far as my life goes, and hence my imagination tends to zero in on things which are indeed in the middle. That is, I don't write about the very rich, who I scarcely know, or the very poor who I don't know very well either.

No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the lower classes, from a fear of not providing well for their families, or among the higher classes, from a fear of lowering their condition in life.

Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him.

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

Life is so interesting... just every day life. I remember someone once saying: "Drama is real life with the boring bits taken out."

In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow.

A working class hero is something to be.

There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.

He was from a different class, too poor, and they would never approve if their daughter became serious with someone like him.

If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing strollers up the street, folding T-shirts, the alarm clock going off early and you dropping into bed exhausted every night. That's real life.

A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them?

The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty to supplement the aesthetic beauty, even in those objects which are primarily admired for the beauty that belongs to them as natural growths.

The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.