I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

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

Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?

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.

Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you really enjoy the way that sounds on it and the way this other thing sounds on it and the way that other thing sounds on it. So, you're finding a new pleasure that you didn't know about before.