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I'm not even sure who my audience is.

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

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

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

Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond.

I really don't have that much interest in stardom.

You know, there is something I'm looking for when I'm writing. But I couldn't tell you what that is.

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It's ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn't deserve anything but lies.

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

Boogie! I hate boogie, God, I mean, not the Chicago boogie like Willie Dixon or Howlin' Wolf, but all those awful white bands ...

I don't think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they're in a mental institution.

You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression.

I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television ... In madness there is order.

I never liked mellow sounding guitar.

Your wine is just sour grapes
Pour me a glass anytime I'm not there

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going ... it's so chatty or something.

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

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

I don't think Marquee Moon was so good, y'know? Just another record. First records everybody likes a lot.

The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either.

What's really fun is to write under different names.

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