The real question is what to live for. And I can't answer it. Except another one of your records. And another chance for me to write. Art for art's sake, corny as that sounds.

The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

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.

Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.