When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.- David Bowie
When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.
Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.
To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I have worked with have done their best work by far with me.
There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
Strangely, some songs you really do not want to write.
Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.
It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.
I have never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.
I am not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I am living on.
I am just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I am working for me.
