David Bowie

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

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

I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me because it's not their profession to do that.

I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight.

There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.

I'm very good at what I do, and I don't turn my hand to something unless I'm very good at it, frankly.

I knew that I was 'interesting' at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n' roll, the beat writers.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.