My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can’t draw people together like one big huge family, people don’t want that. They want isolation or a tribal thing.
Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.
I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.
This ain’t rock ‘n’ roll; this is genocide.
I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me, because it’s not their profession to do that.
I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy.
The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.
All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.
In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.
Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.
I made a more mature approach to industrial music.
I don’t expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics.
Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?
People are always throwing things at me that I’ve said and I say that I didn’t mean anything.
I’m a thinker not a talker.
I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.
I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.
There was a time in America not long ago when rock ‘n’ roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted to go see Chuck Berry were completely forbidden.
I’m drawn between the light and dark.
Feeling so gay, feeling so gay.