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.

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.

He [george W. Bush] lived up - well, he was someone that I wouldn't have voted for. His policies were not mine.