Feeling so gay, feeling so gay.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

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.

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 felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.