I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer.

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.

Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.

Is there any fear in love?

If I drag it up from the bottom of the river, if I dig deep into that muddy floor and pull it up, even if I get most of it wrong, is it mine to tell?

If you would know the value of money go and try to borrow some.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

If we had the right words, if we had the language, we would need no weapons.

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.

There, there, baby. We'll hide her body in the trunk later. (Tory)