David Bowie Quotes
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I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.
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Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'
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I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.
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The underground went really underground. Grand Funk, and all these people man are the moderate's choice of music. Underground is Yoko Ono, The Black Poets. These people scare the hell out of most freaks. They laugh at Yoko Ono, but it's the whole cliché.
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Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content.
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I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.
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But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
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I started playing around with local rock band swith the alto. And then, in a nutshell, somebody fell ill one night, the lead singer of one of the bands, and they knew I could sing, so they asked me if I would stand in. And I quite enjoyed it, actually, I must say, at 14. It was a real trip to have girls wave at you and smile and everything just because you opened your mouth and sang.
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My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.
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As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?
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Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.
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Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
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Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.
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Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.
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Touring with Iggy Pop was something to do. It was good fun. I got drunk a lot.
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When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.
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I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine.
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Nature Boy There was a boy A very strange enchanted boy They say he wandered very far, very far Over land and sea A little shy And sad of eye But very wise Was he And then one day A magic day he passed my way And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings This he said to me “The greatest thing You’ll ever learn Is just to love And be loved In return
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Church on time, makes me party.
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We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say?
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Hitler was the first superstar.
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I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.
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There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.
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When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.