All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex.

I surrounded myself with people who indulged my ego. They treated me as though I was Ziggy Stardust or one of my characters, never realising that David Jones might be behind it.

Money goes to money heaven, body goes to body hell.

Rock's always been the devil's music.

My work is really the accumulation of these different moods that I've had throughout my life and where they've taken me. I start looking back, and I think, I've actually created a life out of all this, out of these changes of mood. They've pushed me through all these years, and I seem to have a semblance of a life, and if I look very carefully, I can see some thematic design to it. There's some continuity.

Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.