David Bowie Quotes
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It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.
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It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.
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Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.
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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.
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Never bored, so I'll never get old
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Actually, my ambition at eight or nine years old was to be one of Little Richard's sax players, and that's when I got my first saxophone, a Selmer. It was a strange Bakelite material - that creamy plastic with all the gold keys on it. I had to get a job as a butcher's delivery boy to start paying for it.
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I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.
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My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can't draw people together like one big huge family, people don't want that. They want isolation or a tribal thing.
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I spent so much time in my bedroom. It really was my entire world. I had books up there, my music up there, my record player. Going from my world upstairs out onto the street, I had to pass through this no-man's-land of the living room, you know, and out the front hall.
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I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.
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I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
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I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.
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The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.
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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
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The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.
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Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.
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What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.
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I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.
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Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.
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Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.
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If I hadn't had my children, I would have been discouraged a lot quicker. It would have been much more easy for me to say, "You know what, let the whole thing go. Have a good time, because these people, this place - it's just not worth it." You know? I can't do that anymore. I look into those eyes and they look at me so trustingly that I'm gonna make sure that [they're thinking], "Hey, you did a good thing bringing me into the world, daddy. I'm going to have a great life!"
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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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Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
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Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.