They [people] mistake fashion for style.

It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex.

I think the first experience scared the hell out of me. Within months of my initial marriage [on Angela Bowie], I realized I had done a really naive and rather stupid thing. . . . I don't think either of us had any real resolve about being together. The result was it made me wary of relationships.