""I've come to realize over 24 years that I enjoy making music," Cocker says. "It's a main source of enjoyment. I mean, I enjoy being with my wife and stuff like that. But in terms of creativity, it's my favorite thing to do.""
""I was always quite a shy kid, so it was difficult for me to talk to people," he recalls. "To talk to people from a stage, rather than to their faces... that worked to a certain extent.""
""It was a deafening silence," Cocker says of its reception. "It really didn't sell anything at all ... We played a few concerts, and then the band fell apart.""
Jarvis Cocker enjoyed a relaxed outing in London, buying a suit and admiring clogs despite his wife's dislike. Pulp released a new album, More, which debuted at No. 1 in the U.K., marking the band's first studio release since 2001's We Love Life. Cocker says making music remains his primary creative pleasure. He began making music around 15 or 16 and used performing to manage shyness by addressing audiences from a stage. Early Pulp releases, including the mini-LP It on Red Rhino, sold poorly and contributed to the band's breakup, prompting Cocker to consider leaving music.
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