Lou Reed Interview

Lou Reed Interview

Here’s an excerpt from The Telegraph’s interview:

To leap right from Delmore Schwarz into the world of Warhol - of all the places in the world to end up!’ Reed rolls his eyes. ‘I just thought, this is heaven. I’m in the perfect place at the perfect time. Here you are, you want to write music and songs and look what you’ve landed in the middle of. This is really, really amazing if I live through this. We went from sleeping on the floor - nothing - and then Andy took us in, which meant we got to eat fruit every night. He really liked the songs. And he was the great protector. If you have a Warhol sitting next to you saying, “Oh, don’t change any of that; don’t let them change that, whatever you do,” that really means something. The fact that he liked it meant that it was OK for it to be that way. And, my God, if he hadn’t, it would have been devastating. We would have had to leave.

(Thanks to Jason Hartley.)