Even as a fan, as someone who's into his performances, the Stooges and his own stuff, Iggy [Pop] is one of the people who kept underlining something that a lot of my older musician friends with punk roots say: you get into this space in your life where you feel like a weirdo, you're marginalised, you don't fit in... and then you can get up on stage in front of people who probably hate you.

I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.

A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.

I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.

You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.

I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.

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.