I’m always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don’t even take what I am seriously.
The end comes when the infinites arrive.
I’m not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.
I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.
There’s a starman waiting in the sky, he’d like to come and meet us, but he thinks he’d blow our minds.
I can ask for cigarettes in every language.
Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.
Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you’re pretty much on the way out...
I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.
Trust nothing but your own experience.
Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.
It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, “Ah, I’ve kicked drugs,” but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.
The minute you know you’re on safe ground, you’re dead.
For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.
You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.
It’s a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there’s a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that’s how some of us conduct our lives.
I couldn’t stand to be separated with my wife for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.
I’m really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds – as you would say – bleeds till sunshine.
You can’t put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn’t be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it’s just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later.
I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don’t think is quite the same as singing it.