Nico

“Yesterday doesn't count. It is what you do today that counts. No amount of talking about yesterday is going to change it.”

“I wanted to be an opera singer since I was a very little girl.”

“When I was a little girl I wanted to be a dancer. I studied ballet.”

“I guess I'm rather self-destructive, and I like to give other people who are self-destructive a song to sing.”

“In New York all the young people know me... I have a lot of friends... but I hate New York.”

“I'm not good at making compromises.”

“I have no regrets except that I was born a woman instead of a man.”

“Things repeat themselves.”

“People think I'm not polite. But, what I have to say to people seems so unnecessary. I can't be forced. I'd rather just be what I feel. Even when I sing I try to imagine I'm all alone, there's nobody out there listening. I play with the notes, with the feeling. Each time the song is different for me.”

“I have a reputation for not turning up to sing. It's something I want very badly to get rid of.”

“When I started with the Velvets, I wanted to sing Lou's song 'I'm Waiting for the Man,' but he wouldn't let me. I guess he thought I didn't understand its meaning, and he was right.”

“As I see it, the '80s are no different from the '60s.”

“I haven't that much of a sense of humour.”

“Sometimes I'm sad and mostly I like sad songs.”