60 Quotes by David Johansen

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.

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

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.

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

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.