The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.

The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.

I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing.

I've had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, "That was off-key" or I forgot lines or I thought I looked like an idiot, and then you're leaving and talking to people, and they're like, "I had the best time of my life! That was amazing!" You just never know.

Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it's overcompensating for something missing in the song's structure. When I think of the music that I listen to constantly, it's never like an assault.