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

By the mid-'80s, it was really apparent to me that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.

Turn and face the strange.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

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.