I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship, yet I hid from it for many, many years and pretended to be cynical about it.

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.

They're the salt of the earth, those girls. They don't sit each night and compare notes on groups, criticising lyrics, asking if it's valid. They just play the record... yeah, and maybe they dance. I love them. I love them dearly

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

We slit the Catholic throat, stoned the poor on such slogans as wish you could hear and love is all we need.

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.