Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Branson Cockeris an English musician, singer-songwriter, actor, voice actor, radio presenter and music video director. He is known for being the frontman of the band Pulp. Through his work with the band, he became a figurehead of the Britpop genre of the mid-1990s. Following Pulp's hiatus, Cocker has led a successful solo career, and presents a BBC Radio 6 Music show called Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth19 September 1963
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When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.
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Part of what tonight is about is to keep the spirit of John Peel alive. To seek out new music and champion new talent.
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You don't often hear people say, 'Oh, since he's been taking them drugs, he's such a nice person! He's really come out of his shell, he's really nice, he's blossomed'.
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I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and the inconsistencies, that's what makes it interesting. I've always striven to be as sloppy as possible.
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It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.
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People who make good music aren't necessarily nice people.
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If you're in a band or think of yourself as a slightly creative person, you can get quite self-indulgent, so sometimes it's nice to have those people who bring you down to earth, but in a pleasant way.
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Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.