I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.

This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.

My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can't draw people together like one big huge family, people don't want that. They want isolation or a tribal thing.

I'm afraid of Americans.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.