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... →
Jarvis Cocker
As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and... →
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... →
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
Jean Cocteau
For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.
Diablo Cody
I think it's great when writers get recognition; it doesn't happen very often. I just don't want that writer to be me. Let it be Aaron... →
The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but... →
Sebastian Coe
I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired me to join an athletics... →
Ask me what makes a champion runner, and I will tell you it helps to have the great good sense to choose your parents carefully.
During my first Olympics in 1980, at the age of 23, I was physically in great condition but mentally too inexperienced to cope comfortably in the... →