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

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" In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle. "

" My God is rock'n'roll. "

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

" I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that. "

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

" When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music? "

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

" I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be. "

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

" 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. "

" If it has more than three chords, it's jazz. "

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

" You're a musician: You play. That's what you do. "

" You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it. "

" 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'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all. "

" I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play. "

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

" I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future. "

" I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything. "

" 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. "

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

" Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy. "

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