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 think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.

The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

I went mainstream in a major way with the song "Let's Dance." And what I found I had done was put a box around myself. It was very hard for people to see me as anything other than the person in the suit who did "Let's Dance," and it was driving me mad - because it took all my passion for experimenting away.

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

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