I never liked mellow sounding guitar.

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.

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.

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

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God's Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

I think only an idiot can be an atheist.

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.

I feel sorry for the little kickers that weigh 165-170.

When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack.

Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.

I love clothes that when you put them on, you feel like you. I don't care whether anyone else likes them.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.