Quotes from Lou Reed

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.

I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do?

When he beat my mother it made me so mad.

The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving her running in circles.

Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright.

I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.

The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse.

Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.

Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?

You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.

My God is rock'n'roll.

You know the expression 'God protects fools and drunks'? I qualify for both.

I've gone out with my shotgun. This is hunting country out there. You better run.

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for.