Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

I recently realized that Television has influenced a lot of English bands. Echo and the Bunnymen, U2, Teardrop Explodes - it's obvious what they've listened to and what they're going for. When I was sixteen I listened to Yardbirds records and thought, "God, this is great." It's gratifying to think that people listened to Television albums and felt the same.

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

I have a real soft spot for flying saucer songs and Frenkenstein songs. When I was a kid the first record I ever really liked was called "The Mummy", and the flip-side was called "The Beat Generation" which Richard Hell later re-wrote as "The Blank Generation". I thought it was the greatest thing I had ever heard. I didn't like Elvis much then, but I was very young. When I was a kid I used to play that monster all the time!

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

What's really fun is to write under different names.

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.