[While] my life started taking on all the problems of addiction. So that took me off into an area where relationships were absolutely impossible to handle on any real level. . . . Even communicating with other people was impossible.

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

Nothing prepared me for your smile

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.

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