I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.

A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.

Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain.

The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.

Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about.

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again.

When I do something, I like it when it's perfect. I'm kind of hard on myself that way.

I grew up at the beach and I was always involved in beach clean-ups and caring for my environment.

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

I don’t like boys who are mean to their mommies. That’s a real turn off for me. And I don’t like boys who aren’t chivalrous. To me, not being respectful is a big deal.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.

A sniper is like a genius - it’s not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.

I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.