On the critical bashing "Lulu" has taken since its release:Lou Reed: "Who cares? I never wrote for them then, I don't write for them now. I have no interest in what they have to say about anything. I'm interested in whether I like it. I write for me.""I think this thing needs a champion. This is for people who are literate. This isn't 'I cry in my beer 'cause you fucked him and ran your truck through my bar.' You can write 30 of those and move to Nashville. These words — every time I see them I get thrilled because it does it to me. It may do it to no one else, I don't care. I can't try any harder. I can't do any better. And my heart was pure and my soul was pure, too. I went in there to make music with the best guys I could find. And we did."On whether Reed considers himself to be obnoxious and weirdly insecure:Lou Reed: "You know a lot of time these guys that interview us, they think they're more literate than I am. That would be a real bad mistake. Don't kid yourself about me, you know what I'm saying? I'm not a good guy to fuck with."
Lou Reed: "Who cares? I never wrote for them then, I don't write for them now. I have no interest in what they have to say about anything. I'm interested in whether I like it. I write for me."
"I think this thing needs a champion. This is for people who are literate. This isn't 'I cry in my beer 'cause you fucked him and ran your truck through my bar.' You can write 30 of those and move to Nashville. These words — every time I see them I get thrilled because it does it to me. It may do it to no one else, I don't care. I can't try any harder. I can't do any better. And my heart was pure and my soul was pure, too. I went in there to make music with the best guys I could find. And we did."
On whether Reed considers himself to be obnoxious and weirdly insecure:
Lou Reed: "You know a lot of time these guys that interview us, they think they're more literate than I am. That would be a real bad mistake. Don't kid yourself about me, you know what I'm saying? I'm not a good guy to fuck with."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
Lou then whipped out a switchblade and stabbed the interviewer.
― tylerw_sandbox, Thursday, 8 December 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
a switchblade OF RHETORIC
― Neil S, Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
seems possible that ulrich is only doing this so that he comes of as really mellow and reasonable in interviews.
― tylerw_sandbox, Thursday, 8 December 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
And now the sympathy ploy.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 December 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
hilar desrip of Lou by Sandra Bernhard in a radio interview last night: "an old rabbi in leather pants"
(then she sang "Walk on the Wild Side")
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 December 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link