If I wasn't going through a thing where I was also being my characters offstage, uh, I'm much happier just wearing the most low-profile things that I can come up with just so I can get down the street.

I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.

Am I Machiavellian? I don't think I'm quite the mastermind people would have me be. Everything I do tends to be very successful and it may have something to do with the fact that I'm very good, not necessarily that I manipulate. But that doesn't often occur to people.

Of course, we found out later Syd Barrett had mental problems. But there was something so otherworldly about him. He was hovering, like, six inches above the ground.

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

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.

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