You can begin really looking for a relationship . . . when you can (appreciate) the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

Let the children use it, let the children lose it, let all the children boogie.

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

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

I don't think I did anything that my contemporaries didn't; it was just that I was the only one who talked about it. In the Sixties anyone who had a sense of style seemed to be gay. I wanted to indentify with that.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.