I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.

I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots.

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

They had nothing in common except for existing in the same time and space

...a little kindness-love-smile-understanding-willingness to help each other may yet go a mighty long way in contemporary-rational-materialistic-world....

Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.

We middles see the world in shades of grey rather than in the clear blacks and whites of committed animal activists and their equally vociferous opponents

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things really don't matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have.

I'm not David Bowie. Who are we kidding? At the end of the day, I'm the same person I've always been. I'm Don Garvey's son from up the road.

Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.

Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of social engineering.

Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.