I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

Money goes to money heaven, body goes to body hell.

I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.

[David] Bowie had a genius for continual change himself, reinventing his sound and his image throughout the decades. Each album seemed to find Bowie in a different persona, with a new sound to match his new look.

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

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.

When we decided to marry, we had two ceremonies - one was more bureaucratic for the sake of the Swiss authorities,then a church service in Florence, and I wrote the music for the church service. The challenge in that was that Iman's [Abdulmajid] family are Muslim and mine are Protestant. I had to be careful about the prayers that we chose and the music I wrote because I didn't want to offend either side.