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.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

With corsets, it's interesting when you put them on, realizing that's what women actually wore. They're just so constricting.