Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

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

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

Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, "Well, if everyone likes it it can't be that good." Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.

You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why - it's my theory about why so many people who are heavily into computers are also into extreme sports and S&M. It's because their bodies are crying out for some kind of action.