Robyn Hitchcock

“Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.”

“An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.”

“After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.”

“Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.”

“I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.”

“As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.”

“You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.”

“I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.”

“If you do things out of time you're weird.”

“Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.”

“In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.”

“One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.”

“I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.”

“I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.”

“As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.”

“I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.”

“We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.”

“Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.”

“When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.”

“After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.”