I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band