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",…

- Tom Verlaine

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

- Tom Verlaine

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

- Tom Verlaine

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

- Tom Verlaine

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…

- Tom Verlaine

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…

- Tom Verlaine

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

- Tom Verlaine

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

- Tom Verlaine

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

- Tom Verlaine