I had enormous self-image, problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do now except I enjoy it now. I'm not driven like I was in my twenties. I was driven to get through life very quickly.

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.

Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.

Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.