It's much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn't listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, '67.

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

I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.

Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.

I think the first experience scared the hell out of me. Within months of my initial marriage [on Angela Bowie], I realized I had done a really naive and rather stupid thing. . . . I don't think either of us had any real resolve about being together. The result was it made me wary of relationships.