Lou Reed

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.