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

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Take a walk on the wild side.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

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

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

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

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

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

Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.

The size of your audience is more important than the size of your book

Surely ghosts will follow wherever there is bad record keeping

I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.

Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.

I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

I don't think we should have justices appointed that decide what they want to hear. It's all about the Constitution the way it was meant to be. And those are the people that I will appoint.

Humility is courage, the open acceptance of your own perfection.

I'm always at my best when I'm fighting a guy who insults me..questions my integrity; it lights more fire in me.