The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

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.

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.

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable

Because someday, in one way or another, you will be taken from me or I you.

If wealth is a blessing from God, then salvation was designed for the wealthy. Money can never please your soul.

Time is a great legalizer even in the fields of morals.

The soul, Advancing ever to the source of light And all perfection, lives, adores, and reigns In cloudless knowledge, purity, and bliss.

I would never wear fur.

Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander.

I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

It's neither our culture nor our race which interconnects us. It's Street Photography.