Zitat des Tages von Lou Reed:
Music was what bothered me, what interested me.
That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.
I'm a humanist.
Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.
I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.
One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.
I'm too old to do things by half.
I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.
My God is rock'n'roll.
In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.
I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
I can concentrate on my art.
But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.
The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.
I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.
Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.
I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.
I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.
I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.
I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.
I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything.
When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.
I tried to give up drugs by drinking.
I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.
I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.
You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.
I don't like overdubs, never liked them.
I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.
The music business doesn't interest me anymore.
There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.
I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.
These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.