Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then ….

Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve..

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were ….

I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there are others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the ….

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about, and it’ll make you feel so bad it’ll….

My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palac….

Cigarettes and coffee, man, that's a combination..

What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show..

If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am..

When I get up in the morning, I stay nude for three or four hours. If I really feel like getting formal, I'll put on board shorts..

I smoked this joint and then it hit me. I thought, what you gotta do is play your own simply blues..

There was a time when I wanted to get out of the Western world. I went down to Grenada and looked at a place, and I realised that if I lived in a Gre….

Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive..

Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger ….

When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a ….

Nihilism is best done by professionals..

I always went in with a very specific idea of the sound I wanted, and once I'd recorded I'd try and make it sell as much as I could, but I only went ….

It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not..

I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here was that I don't feel warm outside of a ci….

I wasn't so stupid that I didn't realize the implications of what they were saying. In my live work I was going for the quick thrill, rather than spe….

The problem being: for years I was struggling - first to prove that I had any talent, then to create some skills and finally to fulfil it reasonably.….