Somebody up there likes me. It ain’t like I’ve followed a well trodden trajectory. John Cooper Clarke Read Quote
It was a tedious saying among hippies: if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. I was very much part of the problem. John Cooper Clarke Read Quote
If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson or Joseph Conrad. It’s a glimpse of eternity. It invites rumination, the relentless whisper of the tide against the shore. John Cooper Clarke Read Quote
My look was based on the Madison Avenue guy who’s just lost his job. Ivy League suit a bit scuzzed up, an outgrown layer cut and five o’clock shadow. John Cooper Clarke Read Quote
I don’t think ‘Citizen Kane’ stands more than one watch. Power corrupts. Who didn’t know that? John Cooper Clarke Read Quote
I’m not fond of crowds. I’m no jittery neurotic, but I don’t really want to be surrounded by a lot of people if I have a choice. John Cooper Clarke Read Quote