I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.

I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary

This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.

Maybe this is all a bit of a myth, a willful desire to give each place its own unique aura. But doesn't any collective belief eventually become a kind of truth? If enough people act as if something is true, isn't it indeed "true," not objectively, but in the sense that it will determine how they will behave? The myth of unique urban character and unique sensibilities in different cities exists because we want it to exist.