All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something.

The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.

I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely.

When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ.

The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

I never liked mellow sounding guitar.

You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression.

Practice? I never practice. I just write songs and take solos.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live.

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Your spiritual brain is wisdom.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.

If a President must constantly remind the people that we're at war, then we're not.

He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.

As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.

Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first.