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

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.

How many of those dead animals you see on the highway are suicides?

The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.

One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.

You are a sinner married to a sinner...and the happiest marriage is the union of two forgivers.

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.