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

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.

David Johansen

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

David Johansen

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

David Johansen

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.

David Johansen

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

David Johansen

I've been tired since I was 15.

David Johansen

You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I had one of those and discovered that I was quite close to death. I always assumed that my lifestyle was going to take me at an early age, but when it was actually occurring I was, 'Not yet!' I pulled back.

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

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.

David Johansen

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

David Johansen

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.'

David Johansen

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

David Johansen

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

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 happens. I hate that auditioning thing.

David Johansen

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

David Johansen

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

David Johansen

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

David Johansen

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

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

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.

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 really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

David Johansen

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

David Johansen

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

David Johansen

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

David Johansen

I'm afraid of me.

David Johansen

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

David Johansen

When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.

David Johansen