A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care.

Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

At its best new wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as they want in absolutely any fashion they can dream up, they'll be creative about it, and do something good besides.

All blues singers are great liars.

I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis.