“I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.” — Lou Reed Quote

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

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

“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.”

“Producing has empowered me as an artist in a specific way. It's forced a certain kind of maturity.”

“Pele featured in the Brazilophile imaginary as the a figure of non-utile excess, a carefree artist in the Nietzschean sense, indifferent to the narrow teleology of winning matches... check the way that most of the endlessly replayed footage we see of Pele is not of him scoring goals, but audaciously missing chances contrived by force of wit.”