I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.

The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television.

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

[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.

The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it is fantastic at. I mean, I live by the Internet in terms of research and it's incredible - there's nothing that you can't find out about. It's not stopped me going to bookshops but I must say that I don't go into as many because any book I want.

People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."