I don't think Marquee Moon was so good, y'know? Just another record. First records everybody likes a lot.

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.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

If humans had nothing to fight for, they would fight for nothing.

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.

All the BEAUTY in the earth bears the FINGERPRINT of the master creator” Gordon B. Hinckley

Fear is a part of everything you do ... You have to take great risks to get big rewards.

You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.

Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto. Usually a mop or a leaf blower.

No one's ever gotten better by practicing less.

Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love

Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.