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.

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

You have to leave room for the other person's ego.

If you were a painter and a rock and roll musi­cian and weren't established in either - to be an artist today you have to be as much a businessman to suc­ceed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.

You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.

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.