I'm not even sure who my audience is.

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.

It sounds like you aren't used to having something so powerful between your legs, " Abbey said. "Maybe you should let me drive.

You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

Things have to be done fast in America , and therefore therapy has to be brief.

I wonder what it’s like for her, looking so much like a dead girl.

With every decisions we make, the last question we ask is what does the consumer think of this.

God designed the program of prayer as an 'apprenticeship' for eternal sovereignty with Christ.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.