I don't really worship the album 'Transformer.' It's not…

You have to experience real life before you can understand what it means to really worship. That's it.

— Anthony Evans

God gave me a gift of singing and playing the piano, and when I do it, it's exciting, of course. But it's more than…

— Anonymous

Lou Reed was an ideal figure to me. He was bisexual, like me, and seemed to inhabit an ambiguous middle place on the masculine-feminine…

— Ezra Furman

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If there's no Scripture in the worship set, then it's not really a worship set.

— Matt Papa

I don't think I'll ever be able to fully explain the way that the Velvet Underground's records opened a door in my head. But…

— Ezra Furman

All I'm doing is being authentic and real and singing about the emotions I go through as a human being. I don't think we…

— Anthony Evans

The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him — it was so matter-of-fact,

— Julian Casablancas

'Some Kind of Monster' is a challenge, and 'Through the Never' is an extension of that. Even the album we made with Lou Reed,…

— Robert Trujillo

I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had fun.

— Mary Lou Jepsen

Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists…

— Andrew VanWyngarden

Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above expectation. People…

— Henry Rollins

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

— Arto Lindsay

I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed.

— Robert Wilson

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band…

— Ron Currie Jr