To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.

The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.

I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

It was fun to be clever.

I'm a blackstar. I'm a blackstar.

Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd was the first person in rock I had seen with makeup on. He wore black nail polish and lots of mascara and black eye shadow, and he was so mysterious. It was this androgynous thing I found absolutely fascinating.

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.