Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.

If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.

If it works, it's out of date.

Of course, we found out later Syd Barrett had mental problems. But there was something so otherworldly about him. He was hovering, like, six inches above the ground.

Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.

I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.

David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.