There’s an old joke that you know you’re in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it’s the other way around you’re in hell.
Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols.
I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.
A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.
This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no fooling around.
Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people...
Always be skeptical about simplicity.
When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that’s when the details take on larger meanings.
It’s not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you’re going to frighten her off.
I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?
I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.
I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.
I came to New York to be a fine artist – that was my ambition.
I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.
We don’t make music, it makes us.
I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival.
With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.
Some things, I feel like no, I never could have the depth of experience of their own music and culture – but sometimes if I’m collaborating with somebody, they’re interested in me bringing my own stuff into their thing, and sometimes that works.
Science’s job is to map our ignorance.
Body odor is the window to the soul.