I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.

He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.

People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that.

There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds.

At no point did I ever doubt I would be as near as anybody could be to England's Elvis Presley. Even from eight or nine years old, I thought, Well, I'll be the greatest rock star in England. I just made up my mind.

My work is really the accumulation of these different moods that I've had throughout my life and where they've taken me. I start looking back, and I think, I've actually created a life out of all this, out of these changes of mood. They've pushed me through all these years, and I seem to have a semblance of a life, and if I look very carefully, I can see some thematic design to it. There's some continuity.