I don't really memorize every little thing I have to do because then I start to think about it too much! I like to keep it in the here and now and not what's coming up.

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

I take lots of vitamins, but I don't think that's what keeps us going.

I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creat­ing life. Or some kind of energy or anti­gravity. It's like the answer to an equation and it's become mythical over the years. But at one time we all knew what it was. I don't know when it was exactly, but that was the ancient knowledge. It's become diffused as it was handed down and turned into myth.

I don't think that the punk sound really became the punk sound until much later. The punk era wasn't really just one musical sound. There are a lot of differences among Television, the Ramones, and the Talking Heads.