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

You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into four or five-word sections; mix em up and reconnect them. You can get some pretty interesting idea combinations like this. You can use them as is or, if you have a craven need to not lose control, bounce off these ideas and write whole new sections.

I'm gay and always have been, even when I was David Jones.

I spent so much time in my bedroom. It really was my entire world. I had books up there, my music up there, my record player. Going from my world upstairs out onto the street, I had to pass through this no-man's-land of the living room, you know, and out the front hall.

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

I'm regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.

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