Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.
It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.
Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.
I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.
The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.
Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.
I'm a humanist.
I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running.
In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.
For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.
I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
The music business doesn't interest me anymore.
I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.
I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.
I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.
One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.
Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.
When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.
But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.
