Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond.

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.

That beautiful day passed just as the saddest ones do, since the most radiant of days has a tomorrow.

There's no place like New York. And I found out that until you go through it for a season, you really don't know it.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.

Carles Puyol is a Barcelona legend. He could have been playing every two weeks but he has shown dignity until the end.

We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town.

My first Indy 500 was one of my high points. I ended up qualifying fourth and I finished fourth. I had a win in Japan a few years later, and then qualifying for Daytona was great as well.

I know I may have done some bad things, but I'm not a bad person.

All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.

I really like working. I can't think of a job I didn't like.

I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.