Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.

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.

Am I Machiavellian? I don't think I'm quite the mastermind people would have me be. Everything I do tends to be very successful and it may have something to do with the fact that I'm very good, not necessarily that I manipulate. But that doesn't often occur to people.

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.

A lot of people that I know are bugged with the idea that they have got to have an audience, or they have got to be liked. I think the more that you fall into that trap it makes your own life harder to come to terms with, because an audience appreciation is only going to be periodic at the best of times.

It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.