Top 70 Quotes by Lou Reed

My God is rock'n'roll.

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

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

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.

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

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

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

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.