I think getting married and then running away for 10 months would be an absolute disaster.

You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him.

I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years.

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.

The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.

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.

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.