60 Quotes by David Johansen

I don’t know why I’m alive but I know there’s a reason for it.

Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother’s father built.

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

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

Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don’t pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.

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

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

I’m doing exactly what I want to do, and I’m having fun doing it.

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