Gregory Corso

The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man.

The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.

I don't like to get in front of people.

Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.