I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

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

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.

With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.