The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

There is a lot of fun to be had when you try and fit as many words as you can within a three-minute song, but there is also a lot of fun in trying to get that message across in three words, or better yet when the music can overpower the words and convey something really pure and perfect that affects our psycho-emotional space.

I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights movement wouldn't have the same resonance without the songs from everyone from Pete Seeger to Odetta to James Brown.