Well, I worked in a sheet metal factory once and scarred my wrist from the cuts. I found a sympathetic psychiatrist who told the draft board I was insane. We used the scars as proof of a suicide attempt. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I always like junkyards. All this metal piled up - they're filled with pathos, those places. Much more pathos than most of the music I've heard. You look at it, and there's more feeling, even though it's depressing, than there… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
Johnny Jewel is how people were maybe two hundred years ago. Back then, when people got up in the morning, they knew what they… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I don't want any production credit. I think producers are overrated. They're for people who, first of all, don't know anything about music or… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television...In madness there is order. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It's ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn't deserve anything… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they're in a mental institution. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
