on creation

If you're not intent on succeeding at all costs, you can't possibly sell-out, because there's nothing to receive in exchange. So, why not do anything you want to, anyway you want to? So we had the freedom that most bands deny themselves, because they're trying to make it; they're trying to 'do something'. We were trying to do something too, but we didn't care if it never got out of the four walls that we were in.

 - Sterling Morrison, on the Velvet Underground