Practice? I never practice. I just write songs and take solos.

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.

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.

Tomorrow is always a better day.

Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.

A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

Real 'imaan' is faith in humanity, so those who deny goodness are kafirs.

I'm more conservative with make-up. My everyday look is a bit of concealer with lots and lots of mascara.

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

I like to sing and leave songs on voicemail. It comes from the heart.

The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.

We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

Obstacles are merely a call to strengthen your resolve to achieve your worthwhile goals.