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I've been tired since I was 15.
In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.
The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.
You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next.
Rock & Rollers don't dress for the weather.
I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.
My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.
When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.
I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.
Young people are still looking and older people have found ...
I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.
I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be.
Everything I've done I've just fallen into.
It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.
I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.
When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.'
You know, when you're making a record, you come up with 15, 20 songs. Then they start to fall by the wayside as your interest wanes. It's kind of like a process of elimination to determine which songs wind up on the record.
I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.
We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. Flamboyant.
I'm afraid of me.
When I'm sleeping I do a lot of living.
As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
