David bowie

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he...

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be...

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other...