There were lots of nightly relationships. But the reason you don't want to make a commitment is not that you're such a freewheeling, adventurous person, it's because you're scared shitless that it will turn out like your mother and father.

I think that my fascination with clothes generally was motivated by trying to create the characters for the stage.

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.

I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.