I really don't have that much interest in stardom.

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.

I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies.

I live in a house of secrets, but I’ve unlocked a few rooms for you

The whole point of team competition is to pick your teammates up.

People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.

have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.

Maybe if one person suffers anywhere in the world, we all have blood in our hands.

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.