Lou Reed

I don't like overdubs, never liked them.

I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything.

I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running.

The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.

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.

Take a walk on the wild side.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.