Lou Reed Quotes

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.

I am private.

I'm the most private person.

When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.

I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.

I don't like having my space invaded.

Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

I don't like to go out to parties or clubbing, and I kind of like my anonymity.

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

I just wanted to have a private life.

One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

I don't want a lot of people nosing round my studio and bothering me. I don't want to see them at all. Let the dealers have all that bother.

I like my privacy. I was completely okay when people didn't recognise me.

The less people know about you, the more you understand how beautiful life is. It's good when you exist only on screen. I don't want them to take me home. I love to have my privacy.

But it was important to simply be sought, even if you didn‟t ever want to be found.

Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go because no one can see me; because there's twenty-one thousand feet between me and them... No, I don't have to press my teeth together or tighten the muscles of my jaw.

All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.

One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic

I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.

The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.