David Johansen Quotes & Sayings

“I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.”

“When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.'”

“I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.”

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

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

“It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.”

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

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

“I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be.”

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