“I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing...” — David Bowie Quote

“I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.”

“I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.”

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

“Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.”

“Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.”

“For me and my drag, I think camp is about exaggeration and artifice and the celebration of superficiality. A lot of my fans look up to me as a figure of femininity but that's all artifice. That's all fake and that's campy within itself, and so that's what resonates to me: the seriousness and the funniness and the artifice and the exaggeration.”