Jarvis Cocker Quotes

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

My private life became public.

I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

There is another side to me which people don't often see, but it's very hard for me to show that. When I do interviews, I'm talking to people I don't know and when you speak to a stranger you don't open up, do you? In my position, people are always looking for something to say about me. And anything I do say, given half-a-chance they'll turn it round into something spectacular so I've got to be very careful. That's why it's only my friends and family who know the real me. Now my wife, Lainya, she could tell you a few stories.

I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.

It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.

Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.

My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.

I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business.

On a serious level, I wouldn't tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldn't ever reveal that, because it takes you down a certain road... I have no desire to be courting the press with my love life.

I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.

If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.

I never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace.

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

I can handle rumors about me. But I don't like things being written about my wife and my family. They don't need to pay a price for me being a star.

It is kinda strange when people know exactly where I've been because they saw it in the newspaper. But this is the culture we live in now, where people are interested in what you're doing on holiday, so we have to just basically accept it.

I've always tried to protect my private life as much as possible, and that is the hardest part because that is what a lot of media are more interested in - the private aspect more than the official side of things.

Just like anyone else, I want privacy at times, but I understand that I am a celebrity.