"But Everyone Who Bought It Formed a Band"

"Yeah. He told Lou, 'Don't forget to put the swear words in the songs.' We never used swear words. We felt the intellectual strength in what we were trying to do came from not using swear words. And then Lou wrote a few songs that were very different.
"I think what happened was Andy gave Lou 14 titles and he said, 'Now go away and write these songs,' because we were hanging around the Factory. He probably saw him as indolent and trying to figure out what to do next. And Lou was never happier than, 'Hey, here's a task. I got 14 titles. I can do that.'"

Kory Grow at Rolling Stone interviews John Cale about the fiftieth anniversary of The Velvet Underground and Nico.