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

I just put drugs down to luck. I persevere quite honestly, and I've got a fair amount of discipline that keeps me out of deep water.

Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous - a battered old roue - I can just see him. An aging rock star doesn't have to opt out life. When I'm 50, I'll prove it.

Is it Nice in your snowstorm- freezing your brain? Do you think that your face looks the same?

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

I never really got the book together for the thing, so I had all the songs and the characters. But by the time we'd gotten it on the road and I'd been doing it for 18 months, oh God, I couldn't wait to move on to something else.

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.