Tom Verlaine

“What's really fun is to write under different names.”

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

“Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.”

“I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely.”

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

“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...”