I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

Genius is individual, scenius is communal.

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

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