I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either.

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.

I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It's ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn't deserve anything but lies.

I can't remember ever being really bored. I find life very interesting, actually. I think some other musicians are always looking for something to give them an idea, but I find I have to reject 90 percent of my ideas because they don't live up to some self-imposed standard. That's also why I don't make a record once a year. I throw so many things out, and I have to have something to say.

All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something.

I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television...In madness there is order.