David Johansen

I've been tired since I was 15.

— David Johansen

The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.

— David Johansen

You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I…

— David Johansen

I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am.

— David Johansen

You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next.

— David Johansen

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but…

— David Johansen

When I'm sleeping I do a lot of living.

— David Johansen

We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. Flamboyant.

— David Johansen

Everything I've done I've just fallen into.

— David Johansen

There's so much negative bullshit being forced down people's throats in the marketplace, we really wanted to create a thing of beauty…

— David Johansen

I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

— David Johansen

The world today is the same as it always was but people know more about what's going on in the world than…

— David Johansen

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

— David Johansen

Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.

— David Johansen

Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?

— David Johansen

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and…

— David Johansen

In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I…

— David Johansen

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

— David Johansen

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas.…

— David Johansen

Young people are still looking and older people have found.

— David Johansen

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.

— David Johansen

Rock & Rollers don't dress for the weather.

— David Johansen

As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

— David Johansen

I don't know if it's possible to affect my ego any more. There's no room left. For me, I think I make…

— David Johansen

Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it…

— David Johansen