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

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.

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like.

I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.

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

You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into four or five-word sections; mix em up and reconnect them. You can get some pretty interesting idea combinations like this. You can use them as is or, if you have a craven need to not lose control, bounce off these ideas and write whole new sections.