John Cale

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.

If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.

I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

That's what my life is, writing songs.

The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.