I'm gay and always have been, even when I was David Jones.

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.

I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.

It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.