The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact.

I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.

I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot of people that's annoying. I like weird stuff. I always hoped if we had a big success it would be on our own terms.

I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.

The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.

Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.