Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

I don't think I did anything that my contemporaries didn't; it was just that I was the only one who talked about it. In the Sixties anyone who had a sense of style seemed to be gay. I wanted to indentify with that.

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

People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned.

The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.