I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.

I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

I could never, ever talk to my father. I really loved him, but we couldn't talk about anything together. There was this really British thing that being even remotely emotional was absolutely verboten.

Capitalism can be alright, I mean Karl Marx didn't live to see what Roosevelt did with that Depression. He pulled everybody out of that Depression and everybody hated Franklin Roosevelt. He got into office four times. One after the other, with everybody saying, he can't get in again. Everybody voted for Roosevelt four times and he did a hell of a lot.

If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.

He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.