Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.

With "Let's Dance," there was actually a chance that I was actually going to be able to keep the money I had made.

You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race

I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.

It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love. It's too late to be grateful, It's too late to be hateful, It's too late to be late again, The European cannon is here.