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

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian? A singer? A performance artist? I've seen him a few times since then and I still can't decide. Whatever, he ain't like nobody else.

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.