David Johansen Quotes

I believe you must try everything in life.

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

You're still young. Don't panic. It's hard to know what you should be doing in your 20s. Try different things, have some fun, and see what happens.

I feel like, every six months, I learn my hair or my skin anew and find a new thing that I like to do, and then I abandon it and move on.

The one message I always send to young people is, Don't be afraid to try different things to see what feels right and what's a good fit.

I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I learn by going where I have to go.

Everything I do now is a first.

It's important that people are open. Some people say, 'I'm going to be a doctor,' and they're a really good doctor. But for the rest of us, it's a big question mark. Just giving yourself a break, letting yourself try new things, and when something doesn't work out, moving along... it's all we can really do.

I feel like every movie, I've learned more and more about what I think of the world and what I'm trying to figure out.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

You have no idea what you're passionate about until you give it a shot. If I hadn't been given a guitar or a camera or whatever, I'd be doing something different.

Once people feel comfortable with something, they say, 'Let's try it.'

For 35 years, I've said, 'I'll never go solo.' But after a period of time - and this isn't just for an artist, but for anybody - all the things you never wanted to do eventually become the only things left that you haven't done. So they start looking pretty interesting.