I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'

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

Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.

I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years, that you can make music in studios, music doesn't have to be made as a real-time experience. But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of "cut and paste" and "undo." And "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" again.

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

Painting, I think it's like jazz.