55 Quotes by Ric Ocasek

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.

I've never been on a water slide in my life.

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.

The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.

There's more to light than the opposite of dark.

I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you have to sort of even that out.

As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.

I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.