I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.

I guess Ziggy would have been the perfect vehicle to have done with.

Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

Things have to hit for the moment. That's one of the reasons I'm into video; the image has to hit immediately. I adore video and the whole cutting up of it.

I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'