Practice? I never practice. I just write songs and take solos..

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

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",….

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

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 l….

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live..

When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ..

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

I always like junkyards. All this metal piled up - they're filled with pathos, those places. Much more pathos than most of the music I've heard. You ….

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

In Old English they don't say I had a dream, but there's another usage of the word - "life is but a dream," to be corny about it. It's implied with e….

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

There were a lot of things I listened to, but so-called pop music never killed me, you know, the type of stuff that always seems to make it on the ra….

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..

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.….

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 gi….

I'm not even sure who my audience is..

Style to me is incidental. The British are very adept at creating it for its own sake, but the best style is incidental. John Coltrane had a style bu….

You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression..

Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond..

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