Dave and I as a couple seem to be the acceptable face of gayness, and that's great. I've got to use that power to try and do what I can - or we have - to try to make the situations in Russia and Poland better.

I've been following him since Space Oddity. And I've followed him from all those albums that didn't sell, like The Man Who Sold The World and things like that. Above all, apart from all the glamorous rubbish, the music's there. Ziggy Stardust is a classic album.

I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.

I guess that's why they call it the blues, time on my hands could be time spent with you.

My sex drive has gone down so much since I've stopped doing coke. I was one of the few people that, when I did coke, I had an enormous sex drive. I still have a healthy sex life today, but it's not so important.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

I really don't need the public's money. I'd like to have something on the internet with charitable donation optional, where anyone can download my music for free.