Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

Birth is a beautiful thing.

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll just get it and put it away in a kind of nook under my bed - a little gift hutch, if you prefer.

I kinda like messing with perception a little bit. Kind of what drugs do sometimes, and drinking. I mean, you know, you mess with your mind a little bit to see life from different angles. Within reason, if you can handle it.

It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years.

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