It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.

I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out.

It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.

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

I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I was indifferent to the arrangements.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.