I love being busy.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

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

I'm an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

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

It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

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

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.

For me, often, there's such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I'm going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don't know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

I don't have a problem with ageing - in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily... it doesn't faze me at all.

Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

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.

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.

I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.

Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I'd be very happy. It's not my favorite thing to do.

I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together. In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.

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.

With a suit, always wear big British shoes, the ones with large welts. There's nothing worse than dainty little Italian jobs at the end of the leg line.

I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.

There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or a Duchamp. It amuses me that they thought that what they did would be a good way of making art.