“Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And if you take that pretend, faux moral standpoint, you end up with people in public life being completely boring. Like they've had their genitals removed.”

—  Jarvis Cocker

Interview with The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/nov/27/jarvis-cocker-pulp-readers-questions (2011)

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