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

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.

I thought that I could do some kind of vehicle involving rock musicals and presenting rock and characters and storyline in a completely different fashion.

I think getting married and then running away for 10 months would be an absolute disaster.

I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.

[While] my life started taking on all the problems of addiction. So that took me off into an area where relationships were absolutely impossible to handle on any real level. . . . Even communicating with other people was impossible.