There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds.

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it's just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later.

People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."

The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

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