[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.

They [people] mistake fashion for style.

Actually, my ambition at eight or nine years old was to be one of Little Richard's sax players, and that's when I got my first saxophone, a Selmer. It was a strange Bakelite material - that creamy plastic with all the gold keys on it. I had to get a job as a butcher's delivery boy to start paying for it.

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.

There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.