I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when he got religion.

I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.

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 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.

Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?

I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.