In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.

One day I realized that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life. That's when you can begin really looking for a relationship. When you can appreciate the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

I have absolutely no interest in rock and roll. I'm just being David Bowie. Mick Jagger is rock and roll. I mean, I go out and my music is roughly the format of rock and roll, I use the chord changes of rock and roll, but I don't feel I'm a rock and roll artist. I'd be a terrible rock artist, absolutely ghastly.

Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.