Tom Verlaine Quotes

It's interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

I'm not a great one for chatting people up because it's phoney.

I'm not really a flirt; I just try to be myself.

Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'

I don't want to be in everyone's face. I'm a big music fan, and I get really pissed off when it gets like that... and I don't want people to get like that with me.

Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating.

Sometimes I think I might insult people by being openly flirtatious, then snatching it back.

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.

I don't want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I know it, don't tell me I had a good show. I hate that. I guess because I'm 17, people think I don't see stuff like that.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Never ask a bore a question.

The thing that is uncomfortable is when people kind of stare for a long time and point. That gets weird. I'd much prefer someone to come up to me and say something.

I did not like formal meetings, because they took away my freedom. I just liked to spend time with my friends, where I could be myself and did not need to don a mask.

I'm much happier talking with people than I am flirting with them.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

It is better to be sincere in one language than to be a twit in two.

If I did want to get a girl's attention, it would just be in some way where I would just start talking to her. It would have to feel organic. It's too weird otherwise.

There's no law against asking strangers about their lives and feelings, although sometimes it really feels like there is.

There are places you go, and they say, 'Take off your dark glasses so we can see your beautiful blue eyes.' And you just want to... you just want to... I dunno, um... thump them.

When I feel really insecure, or I'm in a social situation where I'm nervous about how I come off, or I'm trying to control the situation too much, I literally just try and use the same muscles that I had to use on stage - just paying attention to the other person and trusting yourself to respond as emotionally honestly as possible.

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

I've had people come stand in front of the treadmill and wait for me to acknowledge their presence so they can speak.