The Beat thing happened when I was younger. I used to run away from home, inspired by the Beats, like in '64 and '65.

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 loved her

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

Ah, how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress.

An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

I believe that happiness is something we create

Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.

In my downtime, for fun, I engage in philosophical internet debates. Yeah, I'm that guy.