Since The Departure Of Good Old-fashioned Entertainers

Who'll Love Aladdin Sane? Battle Cries And Champagne Just In Time For Sunrise.

To Be Taken Seriously About Doing Something Creative And Probably Travel A Lot. That Was My Motivation. I Knew I Was Good, I Knew I Could Write. I Also Knew You Could Get Laid Really Easily.

Everywhere I Looked, Demons Of The Future [were] On The Battlegrounds Of One’s Emotional Plane.

And I Think My Spaceship Knows Which Way To Go.

We Were Terribly Excited, And I Think We Took It On Our Shoulders That We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971. That Was The Idea. And We Wanted To Just Blast Everything In The Past, Rather Like The Vorticists Did At The Beginning Of The Century In The Britain Or The Dadaists Did Europe, You Know. It Was The Same Sensibility Of Everything Is Rubbish, And All Rubbish Is Wonderful.