I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I was indifferent to the arrangements.

We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. That was the idea. And we wanted to just blast everything in the past, rather like the vorticists did at the beginning of the century in the Britain or the dadaists did Europe, you know. It was the same sensibility of everything is rubbish, and all rubbish is wonderful.

I guess Ziggy would have been the perfect vehicle to have done with.

I'm regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.