"Never look back; something is always gaining on you."

“I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.”

Source : "The Survivors: David Johansen". Interview with Mike Flaherty, www.gq.com. November 1, 2011.

“My dad almost died as a child from water-borne diseases in Ethiopia, and he had talked to me about digging a well in Ethiopia and I thought, I have too many friends and great people in my life that would be concerned with this subject of clean water.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

“Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave.”

Source : Else Lasker-Schüler (2002). “Selected Poems”, Green Integer Books

“Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.”

“Where I'm at in life, the women have got to come with something else, not just the body, but the mind and spirit. It usually trips them out, but that's the way it's going to be. I'm looking at the big picture.”

“Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal.”

“I can't imagine anybody not wanting to make sure that noncitizens don't dilute legitimate U.S. citizens' vote.”

“The longer the test the better you feel when it's over.”