I can't keep my fingers out of any pies.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.

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

The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead.

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

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.