I think that my fascination with clothes generally was motivated by trying to create the characters for the stage.

I have absolutely no interest in rock and roll. I'm just being David Bowie. Mick Jagger is rock and roll. I mean, I go out and my music is roughly the format of rock and roll, I use the chord changes of rock and roll, but I don't feel I'm a rock and roll artist. I'd be a terrible rock artist, absolutely ghastly.

Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.

Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.

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

I really floated around in the '60s, because I felt comfortable with nothing.

A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long.