The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

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.

I think I am a lot more relaxed about what I have or haven't done.

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.

I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.