“Just a perfect day, problems all left alone.”

“Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.”

“I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.”

“I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.”

“How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?”

“Rock & roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not for music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty? ”

“The myriad choices of his fateSet themselves out upon a plateFor him to chooseWhat had he to lose”

“They listen to the music of idiots and amuse themselves with the sordid miseries of their businesses. They are not the things of angels or of any higher outpost that humanity might aspire to. Your loathsome vomitous businessman king is of the lowest order, his advisors crumbling mockeries of education driven by avarice. My love, dress them in the suits of mockery, and in their advanced state of stupidity and senility, burn and destroy them, so their ashes might join the compost which they so much deserve.”

“Just a perfect day, problems all left alone.”