I sleep on a tar roof scream my songs into lazy floods of…

“they're fucking up minds they do not own.”

— jim carroll

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

— Jim Carroll

I love kids that come to shows, little kids coming up to you with braces; like, some kid came up to me in a…

— Jim Carroll

I need a consistency of my moods if there is to be any consistency in my style. I can't attempt to write always in…

— Jim Carroll

My voice has a quiver/ A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them.

— Jim Carroll

“Sex is no longer a beautiful thing", she said. "It has become an entirely separate entity from what was quaintly known as making love.…

— Jim Carroll

“It’s all as if words, phrases, images, syntax were small glass beads from a necklace which was wrenched from some neck and spilled on…

— Jim Carroll

I love this mansion, though it is too many windows ...to open halfway each morning ...to close halfway each night.

— Jim Carroll

It's easy to get by on a facade of fancy style, but sooner or later, people are going to see through it. I'm trying…

— Jim Carroll

I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face a rock…

— Jim Carroll

Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation. This was…

— Jim Carroll

When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young poet who…

— Jim Carroll

I do believe that a poet would possess a stronger intuitive sense of phrasing with a rock song. There is a way to tap…

— Jim Carroll

I should have stayed an athlete, body well-tuned, cruising around with my accountant in a Porsche, maroon and chrome.

— Jim Carroll

I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.

— Jim Carroll