Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.

Oh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild.

Holy Moses, let us live in peace. Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease. There's a man over there, what's his colour I don't care, he's my brother, let us live in peace.

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.

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

If you don't understand hip-hop, you just have to see it being recorded.

But until we get rid of that shame, then people are going to stay underground, they are not going to get tested, and we're facing an uphill battle [with AIDS].