I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

[David] Bowie had a genius for continual change himself, reinventing his sound and his image throughout the decades. Each album seemed to find Bowie in a different persona, with a new sound to match his new look.

If you come from art, you'll always be art.

People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.

It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.

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

I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.