When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

One day in Berlin ... Eno came running in and said, 'I have heard the sound of the future.' ... he puts on 'I Feel Love', by Donna Summer ... He said, 'This is it, look no further. This single is going to change the sound of club music for the next fifteen years.' Which was more or less right.

It's almost a social grace to get into the art world, and I'm very wary of it. Art was good in Berlin in the late '70s - there was a lot more guts to art when the Neo-Expressionists were starting up; it was real slapdash; it has real heart to it - but it seems so cold and heartless in America. It's a buyer's market.

The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.