Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.
Robyn Hitchcock
You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.
Robyn Hitchcock
Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I’m most competent at.
Robyn Hitchcock
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.
Robyn Hitchcock
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.
Robyn Hitchcock
Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.
Robyn Hitchcock
One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn’t want to have to produce it by committee.
Robyn Hitchcock
Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.
Robyn Hitchcock
If you do things out of time you’re weird.
Robyn Hitchcock
Everything is a reaction.
Robyn Hitchcock
As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.
Robyn Hitchcock
You can’t censor people’s dreams.
Robyn Hitchcock
If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh… or they’d lock each other up.
Robyn Hitchcock
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.
Robyn Hitchcock
As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.
Robyn Hitchcock
Dreams are a scientific fact.
Robyn Hitchcock
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.
Robyn Hitchcock
I was always jealous of something getting more attention.
Robyn Hitchcock
I can tell how I’m doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.
Robyn Hitchcock
People’s intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don’t tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
Robyn Hitchcock
Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
Robyn Hitchcock
The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.
Robyn Hitchcock
So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I’ve got a lot in common with everybody else.
Robyn Hitchcock
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.
Robyn Hitchcock
I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.
Robyn Hitchcock
After the Soft Boys I just didn’t want to work with any more guitarists.
Robyn Hitchcock
Well, I’ve been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.
Robyn Hitchcock
I became a musician because that’s really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.
Robyn Hitchcock
I’ve been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it’s time to do all the other stuff.
Robyn Hitchcock
Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.
Robyn Hitchcock
An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.
Robyn Hitchcock
Production is something I’ve never come to terms with.
Robyn Hitchcock