Top 70 Quotes by Lou Reed

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

My God is rock'n'roll.

I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.

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.

There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.

The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.