When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ.

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.

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.

Classic of '43. Don't knock it. A Vintage year.

To make sense of it - that's the challenge. To bear witness to the death, without being broken by the weight of it.

Even the blind man can see the beauty as it rides upon the sound of a voice, edge itself between the lines on his fingerprints to be spread upon the smooth snippets of life he touches.

I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.

I am a hot-blooded fire and I am fearless.

Reading allows you to go into a space that nothing else can take you to.

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

I can't get no respect.

Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up.

Lost is the time that you don't spend for love.