Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

I went mainstream in a major way with the song "Let's Dance." And what I found I had done was put a box around myself. It was very hard for people to see me as anything other than the person in the suit who did "Let's Dance," and it was driving me mad - because it took all my passion for experimenting away.

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

I think that my fascination with clothes generally was motivated by trying to create the characters for the stage.

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.