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

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.

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.

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

Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.

Being interesting isn't important. But being happy is. As well as being a person you're proud of

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.

Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.

A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won't want to gossip.

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time.

If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?

A thing that has no value does not exist.