I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.

From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.