Doe Quote by David Bowie

Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence…

— Henry Rollins

Lou Reed's spirit and the way he did things was so important. Him and his music mean so much to me as the years…

— Jim James

'Pitchfork' said something like, 'Michael Imperioli wrote a book that sounds like Lou Reed fan fiction,' which maybe it is. It's fiction, and I'm…

— Michael Imperioli

There are many critics whose work I greatly admire. Even though I diverge from T.J. Reed in several important ways, I've learned greatly from…

— Philip Kitcher

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really…

— Stephen Malkmus

I think there's a lot of writers who took rock music more seriously: Greil Marcus, Jon Landau.

— Robert Hilburn

Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and the struggle…

— Howard Frank Mosher

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.

— Peter Schjeldahl

I had a checklist in my mind of the things that make a biography practical. Is the source material centralized? Is it easy to…

— Terry Teachout

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what…

— Ken Burns

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.

— Toby Stephens

One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.

— Conor Oberst