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  • There are only three things that stop me sleeping: hunger, the odd bad dream and cramp in the arches of my feet - it's crippling, as if somebody's trying to tie your foot in a reef knot.
    - John Cooper Clarke
  • It amazes me there are movies about writers… such inert, uneventful lives.
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  • I write with pen and paper. I don't have a mobile or computer, because I know how great they are. If I did, I'd never leave the house - you'd find me in six months, dead under a pile of pizza boxes.
    - John Cooper Clarke
  • Well, I've obviously been a great source of inspiration to the academic population of Salford! They're citing me as a major contribution to their upward trajectory!
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  • By the '80s, anything to do with punk was perceived as rancid. Me being known as the 'punk poet' meant my work and I plummeted.
    - John Cooper Clarke
  • To make the hips the focal point of a pair of trousers is, to me, a fashion mistake.
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  • It took me 30 years for people to consider me an overnight success.
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  • I love Charles Baudelaire. Him and Shakespeare are the only people I think are better than me.
    - John Cooper Clarke
  • Somebody up there likes me. It ain't like I've followed a well trodden trajectory.
    - John Cooper Clarke