Tom Verlaine Writing Quotations

Practice? I never practice. I just write songs and take solos.

I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of playing piano and then playing sax for a number of years. I kind of got into rock backwards. A lot of guys go into rock and then get sick of it and then go into something else. I came the other way, so I've always just had a lot more stuff lying around.

I always thought I was commercial. I always thought I was writing hit singles. These days, whatever's on the radio is considered commercial. People like what's on the radio, whatever it is.

What's really fun is to write under different names.

You know, there is something I'm looking for when I'm writing. But I couldn't tell you what that is.