Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

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

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.

Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.

My shows are not narratives.

Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.