I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.

I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.

I am still my teenage self. If you think that we all step through a door marked Adult, or that we sign a Grown-Up Document, you’re quite wrong. We remain as we always were, and that, alas, is one of life’s many nasty tricks.

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

I can smell burning flesh... and I hope to God it's human.

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.