Boogie! I hate boogie, God, I mean, not the Chicago boogie like Willie Dixon or Howlin' Wolf, but all those awful white bands.

The Beat thing happened when I was younger. I used to run away from home, inspired by the Beats, like in '64 and '65.

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

People ask me this a lot, what a song's about.... I do think analyzing a song can be interesting, although it doesn't necessarily get to the point. It's a whole other side activity. I do like making a thing into pictures. If I get an abstract idea and all the words in it don't represent tangible things, I might try to take the idea and make it into a picture, create a little scene there, an image.

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

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 just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely.