Hitler was the first superstar.

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

I made a more mature approach to industrial music.

Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.

Am I Machiavellian? I don't think I'm quite the mastermind people would have me be. Everything I do tends to be very successful and it may have something to do with the fact that I'm very good, not necessarily that I manipulate. But that doesn't often occur to people.

It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?