I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either.

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.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

For now, let us simply observe that the assault on human dignity is one of the prime goals of the visitation of fear, a prelude to the domination of the mind and the triumph of power

I can be all that I can be.Endless opportunities, this is my world.

I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.

There is an irreplaceable ally. It's called the United States of America.

Embrace your dreams and never lose faith in yourself. Your dreams can come true if you work hard enough for them.

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

Dolls are like small dead people.

A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.

Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.