It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. Everything falls into a feeling of 'rightness'.

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.

You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.

This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.

I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.

I'm not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me; I'm not sure it's what I want. I don't think I want to be a designer-rock artist.

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.