Jarvis Cocker

Musician

Our Guess:

Quiet, reflective, and idealistic. Interested in serving humanity. Well-developed value system, which they strive to live in accordance with. Extremely loyal. Adaptable and laid-back unless a strongly-held value is threatened. Usually talented writers. Mentally quick, and able to see possibilities. Interested in understanding and helping people.

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Biography

Jarvis Branson Cocker is an English musician, singer-songwriter, actor, voice actor, radio presenter and music video director. He initially found success as the frontman of the band Pulp, becoming a figurehead of the Britpop genre of the mid-1990s.

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Quotes by Jarvis Cocker

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.

Anyone who thinks they're sexy needs their head checked.

Silver Machine still sounds really modern with all the white noise. It's a bit punky in a way. They were ahead of their time.

I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now; they think that's going to sort things out.

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.