Touring with Iggy Pop was something to do. It was good fun. I got drunk a lot.
It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. Everything falls into a feeling of 'rightness'.
I guess Ziggy would have been the perfect vehicle to have done with.
People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned.
I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.
It was like treading water all through the '60s, and when 1970 kicked in, I thought "We're here. Right." God, this is exciting. I'm going to go for it now. I really felt it was my time. Then Marc Bolan did it first. That really pissed me off.