“If people should say of me that I tried always to go straight there is perhaps no credit to me in that. It may have been mere indolence. The straight road always seemed to me the easiest.”

“The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.”

“Give it to me straight from the heart.
Tell me we can make one more start.
You know I'll never go - as long as I know
It's comin' straight from the heart.”

“People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.”

“It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.”

“I know there is no straight road
No straight road in this world
Only a giant labyrinth
Of intersecting crossroads”

“Cupid draw back your bow
And let your arrow go
Straight to my lover's heart for me
For me…
Cupid please hear my cry
And let your arrow fly
Straight to my lover's heart for me.”

“I always said I’d never go to New York until someone pays me—because I’ve seen people come back from New York like desiccated, broken… New York is a tough place if you’re coming out of Port Authority or from Oregon, and they were paying me 356 dollars a day to be on the set [of Sid and Nancy] so that was really wonderful. Then I did Straight To Hell which went straight to video (but) then Andy Warhol noticed me from those two films. Then I got to be in Interview magazine and I got this little measure of celebrity, but with no money (laughs) that sucks… (but) it feels great if you’ve been wanting it. A lot of people like to say, ‘oh I didn’t ask for this, it just happened. I’m the luckiest guy in the world…’ I always wanted it.”

“I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. I'm not about to change now.”

“Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.”