Robyn Hitchcock
Robyn Hitchcock
Robyn Rowan Hitchcockis an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano, and bass guitar...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth3 March 1953
teenager drawing listening
When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.
thinking laughing people
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.
ifs
If you do things out of time you're weird.
running military campaigns
Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.
drawing color lines
I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.
hallelujah pops like-me
As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.
christian missing-someone church
If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.
people singers
I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.
book mao ends
I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.
pain distance love-is
Love is the distance between reality and pain.
fifteen musician ability
I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.
consciousness process whole
Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
beautiful past delicate-things
People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.
balloons profile increase
Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.