If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. That was the idea. And we wanted to just blast everything in the past, rather like the vorticists did at the beginning of the century in the Britain or the dadaists did Europe, you know. It was the same sensibility of everything is rubbish, and all rubbish is wonderful.

There's a good television programme called 'Disco 2.' It's quite good but again it's average, average. It's all on a down play. You know we've got this thing in England to be hip is to speak very down - like John Peel. And that just about sums up England. They don't realize when they talk like that, then that is what they represent - absolutely.

Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.