And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who doesn't want to be sucked into the tyranny of the mainstream. Because once you get sucked into that, you're dead as an artist.

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.

Ironically, style doesn't come even closely related to fashion. It's got nothing to do [with clothes].

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

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