I never really got the book together for the thing, so I had all the songs and the characters. But by the time we'd gotten it on the road and I'd been doing it for 18 months, oh God, I couldn't wait to move on to something else.

I can ask for cigarettes in every language

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.

It was fun to be clever.

I spent so much time in my bedroom. It really was my entire world. I had books up there, my music up there, my record player. Going from my world upstairs out onto the street, I had to pass through this no-man's-land of the living room, you know, and out the front hall.

I think getting married and then running away for 10 months would be an absolute disaster.

Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly.