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"What's really fun is to write under different names."
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"The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell."

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

"I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!"

"I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality."

"I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss."

"I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you."
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"Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun."

"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."

"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."

"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."
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