Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

I got a bad migraine that lasted 3 years, and the pills I took made by fingers disappear.

I guess Ziggy would have been the perfect vehicle to have done with.

Some of us, I think, us small, pompous arty ones probably read too much George Steiner and kind of got the idea that we were entering to this kind of post-culture age and that we'd better do something postmodernist - quickly, before somebody else did.

I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.