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

It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.

I can't presume to speak for the others, but I never felt anything negative from anyone when I was onstage with Television. When I played rhythm behind Lloyd, the only thing that concerned me was to push him as hard as I could so that he'd go beyond what he was capable of and come up with something new, and vice versa. That's the only thing that mattered.

I don't think Marquee Moon was so good, y'know? Just another record. First records everybody likes a lot.

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

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Well, I worked in a sheet metal factory once and scarred my wrist from the cuts. I found a sympathetic psychiatrist who told the draft board I was insane. We used the scars as proof of a suicide attempt.