"I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be."
"You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful."
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Source: Lou Reed by Stuart Berman, pitchfork.com. October 28, 2013.
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