I woke up one day and realized I was a closet hetero.
Hitler was the first superstar.
Sweet head, give you sweet head.
I’d rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.
I’m English. I can’t accept happiness that easily. There’s got to be a trick in there somewhere.
I don’t make changes to confuse anyone. I’m just searching. That’s what causes me to change. I’m just searching for myself.
It’s true – I am a bisexual. But I can’t deny that I’ve used that fact very well. I suppose it’s the best thing that ever happened to me.
If I wasn’t going through a thing where I was also being my characters offstage, uh, I’m much happier just wearing the most low-profile things that I can come up with just so I can get down the street...
People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate – because, unfortunately, they’ve been programmed to do that.
I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through – creating a through point for a theatrical device.
I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 – for albums, anyway.
Rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that’s coming out today, people are just, they’ve got it on as background music. It’s kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it’s very disposable.
I can’t keep my fingers out of any pies.
My mother was a housewife. Both from – well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.
My father worked for a children’s home called Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. They’re a charity.
People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, “This guy’s hot you should buy this record.”
I guess Ziggy would have been the perfect vehicle to have done with.
I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that’s happened in music in a long time.
I’m not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together.
There’s something about the style of living in the country that they feel, “This is what represents me.” So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.