I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

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.

There is nothing more precious than the wealth of time.

You could become rich if you were born financially poor, But you can't stay rich if you are poor minded.

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities

Secret to Productivity is single tasking: Focus only on one task at hand. And don't start another till that one is completely done

I trust you all slept well, ” I said, deliberately keeping my tone light. I returned Malich’s glare with a tight-lipped grin.“Yes, we did, ” Kaden answered quickly.“I’m sorry to hear that.

As actors we try to find different sides of ourselves.

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Winning is the only thing that makes me happy. Ask my wife. I don't get happy about anniversaries or birthdays. I don't care about that. Just winning.

Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.