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" 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. "

Lou Reed

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" My God is rock'n'roll. "

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" The most important part of my religion is to play guitar. "

" I can create a vibe without saying anything, just by being in the room. "

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" I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it. "

" Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful. "

" These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible. "

" I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music. "

" 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 think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego. "

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Them

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" Music was what bothered me, what interested me. "

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Bothered

Music

" You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums. "

" I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be. "

" When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment. "

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

" One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff. "

" People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi. "

" I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen. "