David Bowie

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place. ”

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that - that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be. ”

I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely. ”

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in. ”

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity. ”

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody. ”

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way. ”

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. I don't need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute. ”

The Internet carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic, nihilistic. ”

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original. ”