I've been putting out the fire with gasoline.

When the musical keyboard was created in the 1970's, you had electronic geeks that had no background in music created these devises and gave them to musicians that had no background in electronics. The result was some of the wierd sounds that came out in the '70s.

Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.

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.

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.

It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.

[David] Bowie had a genius for continual change himself, reinventing his sound and his image throughout the decades. Each album seemed to find Bowie in a different persona, with a new sound to match his new look.