Bowie's A Real Man, And I'm A

Well, After Zombie Birdhouse Came Out, I Toured Behind It In The Fall Of 1982, Into The Spring, And In The Summer In The Far East. At That Time, I Found My Work Self-referential; It Was Getting To Be Rock Songs About A Rock Singer Who Lived A Rock Life On The Rock Road, And I Was Starting To Wonder What I Would Be Like To Rent My Own Apartment, What It Would Be Like To Have A Checkbook.

I Feel A Great Comfort And Relief Knowing That There Are Others Who Lived And Died And Thought And Fought So Long Ago; I Feel Less Tyrannized By The Present Day.

Really Good Music Isn't Just To Be Heard, You Know? It's Almost Like A Hallucination

When The 'godfather Of Punk' Thing Started Floatin' Around, It Was, I Was Really, Really Embarrassed. I Thought I Should Have A Great, Big Rig And A Cape And Everything, And It Was Very Embarrassing. And Then After A While, You Learn That If People Call You Anything, This Is A Great Gift.

In 1965, When Great Young White Artists In The English-speaking World Were Successfully Re-channeling Hillbilly And Black Music - You Know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - They Didn't Get Any Money At First. They Were All Broke.