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

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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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It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.

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I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.

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