[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.

The media is either our salvation or our death.

I just put drugs down to luck. I persevere quite honestly, and I've got a fair amount of discipline that keeps me out of deep water.

I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

1961 was when I was really into clothes. I left school at 15 and started copying a bloke who used to go up on the train to London with me; Leslie, I think his name was. He was like, top mod of his own area. He wore Italian jackets with white linen jeans. Boy, was that cool! I mean, that's in style now - it's very much the L.A. look. But he was wearing it then, and it looked supercool.