David Bowie Quotes And Sayings

I'm Rather Kind Of Old School, Thinking That When An Artist Does His Work, It's No Longer His... I Just See What People Make Of It.

My Son's Full Real Name Is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As A Toddler, He Was Called By His Second Name Zowie. But It Was Such An Identifiable Name During The Seventies That If I Called Him Loudly In Public Places, Everyone Would Turn To Stare, So I Started Calling Him Joey To Take The Pressure Off.

I Guess, Taking Away All The Theatrics Or The Costuming And The Outer Layers Of What I Do, I'm A Writer... I Write.

Being A Hybrid Maker Off And On Over The Years, I'm Very Comfortable With The Idea And Have Been The Subject Of Quite A Few Pretty Good Mash-ups Myself.

I've Started Doing Book Reviews For Barnes &Amp; Noble! They Saw That I Did A Lot Of Book Reviews On The Site, And They Figured That It Might Not Be A Bad Thing If They Got Me To Do Some For Them As Well. I Gave Them Five Categories I'd Be Interested In Reviewing, From Art To Fiction To Music.

I'm Very Good At What I Do, And I Don't Turn My Hand To Something Unless I'm Very Good At It, Frankly.

I Believe That I Often Bring Out The Best In Somebody's Talents.

I Don't See Any Boundaries Between Any Of The Art Forms. I Think They All Inter-relate Completely.

I Guess It's Flattering That Everyone Believed I Was Those Characters, But It Also Is Dehumanizing.

Fame Itself... Doesn't Really Afford You Anything More Than A Good Seat In A Restaurant.

I Never Thought I Would Be Such A Family-oriented Guy; I Didn't Think That Was Part Of My Makeup. But Somebody Said That As You Get Older, You Become The Person You Always Should Have Been, And I Feel That's Happening To Me.

I Always Had A Repulsive Need To Be Something More Than Human.

But I've Got To Think Of Myself As The Luckiest Guy. Robert Johnson Only Had One Album's Worth Of Work As His Legacy. That's All That Life Allowed Him.

I Felt I Really Wanted To Back Off From Music Completely And Just Work Within The Visual Arts In Some Way. I Started Painting Quite Passionately At That Time.

I Never Could Get Over The Fact That The Pixies Formed, Worked And Separated Without America Taking Them To Its Heart Or Even Recognizing Their Existence For The Most Part.

I've Never Responded Well To Entrenched Negative Thinking.

I Think It All Comes Back To Being Very Selfish As An Artist. I Mean, I Really Do Just Write And Record What Interests Me And I Do Approach The Stage Shows In Much The Same Way.

I've Made Over 25 Studio Albums, And I Think Probably I've Made Two Real Stinkers In My Time, And Some Not-bad Albums, And Some Really Good Albums. I'm Proud Of What I've Done. In Fact It's Been A Good Ride.

I'm Looking For Backing For An Unauthorized Auto-biography That I Am Writing. Hopefully, This Will Sell In Such Huge Numbers That I Will Be Able To Sue Myself For An Extraordinary Amount Of Money And Finance The Film Version In Which I Will Play Everybody.

I Realized The Other Day That I've Lived In New York Longer Than I've Lived Anywhere Else. It's Amazing: I Am A New Yorker. It's Strange; I Never Thought I Would Be.

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.

Age Doesn't Bother Me. So Many Of My Heroes Were Older Guys. It's The Lack Of Years Left That Weighs Far Heavier On Me Than The Age That I Am.

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.

Anxiety And Spiritual Searching Have Been Consistent Themes With Me, And That Figures Into My Worldview. But I Tend To Make My Songs Sound Like Relationship Songs.

When I Was 18, I Thought That, To Be A Romantic, You Couldn't Live Past 30.

The Skin Of My Character In 'The Man Who Fell To Earth' Was Some Concoction, A Spermatozoon Of An Alien Nature That Was Obscene And Weird-looking.

I Find Only Freedom In The Realms Of Eccentricity.

For Me, The World That I Inhabit In Reality Is Probably A Very Different World Than The One People Expect That I Would Be In.

The Truth Is Of Course Is That There Is No Journey. We Are Arriving And Departing All At The Same Time.

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.

I Think Mick Jagger Would Be Astounded And Amazed If He Realized That To Many People He Is Not A Sex Symbol, But A Mother Image.

You Would Think That A Rock Star Being Married To A Supermodel Would Be One Of The Greatest Things In The World. It Is.

I Was Born In London 1947, After The War. A Real Wartime Baby. I Went To School In Brixton, And Then I Moved Up To Yorkshire, Which Is In The North Of England. I Lived On The Farms Up There.

I Think In The '70s That There Was A General Feeling Of Chaos, A Feeling That The Idea Of The '60s As 'Ideal' Was A Misnomer. Nothing Seemed Ideal Anymore. Everything Seemed In-between.

I Was Very Into Making The Big Artistic Statement - It Had To Be Innovative; It Had To Be Cutting Edge. I Was Desperately Keen On Being Original.

Pixies And Sonic Youth Were So Important To The Eighties.

Since The Departure Of Good Old-fashioned Entertainers The Re-emergence Of Somebody Who Wants To Be An Entertainer Has Unfortunately Become A Synonym For Camp. I Don't Think I'm Camper Than Any Other Person Who Felt At Home On Stage, And Felt More At Home On Stage Than He Did Offstage.

Once I've Written Something It Does Tend To Run Away From Me. I Don't Seem To Have Any Part Of It - It's No Longer My Piece Of Writing.

There, In The Chords And Melodies, Is Everything I Want To Say. The Words Just Jolly It Along. It's Always Been My Way Of Expressing What, For Me, Is Inexpressible By Any Other Means.

Radio In England Is Nonexistent. It's Very Bad English Use Of A Media System, Typically English Use.

I've Always Regretted That I Never Was Able To Talk Openly With My Parents, Especially With My Father. I've Heard And Read So Many Things About My Family That I Can No Longer Believe Anything; Every Relative I Question Has A Completely Different Story From The Last.

I Was Never Particularly Fond Of My Voice.

I Thought That I Wrote Songs And Wrote Music, And That Was Sort Of What I Thought I Was Best At Doing. And Because Nobody Else Was Ever Doing My Songs, I Felt - You Know, I Had To Go Out And Do Them.

I Couldn't Have Written Things Like 'Low' And 'Heroes,' Those Particular Albums, If It Hadn't Have Been For Berlin And The Kind Of Atmosphere I Felt There.

Even Though I Was Very Shy, I Found I Could Get Onstage If I Had A New Identity.

I Have All The Admiration In The World For Somebody Like Bono, Who Really Puts Himself On The Line And Tries Actively To Do Something About Our World Situation.

All Art Really Does Is Keep You Focused On Questions Of Humanity, And It Really Is About How Do We Get On With Our Maker.

Art Was, Seriously, The Only Thing I'd Ever Wanted To Own. It Has Always Been For Me A Stable Nourishment. I Use It. It Can Change The Way That I Feel In The Mornings.

There Are Times When I Prefer A Cerebral Moment With An Artist, And I'll Just Enjoy The Wit Of A Picabia Or A Duchamp. It Amuses Me That They Thought That What They Did Would Be A Good Way Of Making Art.

It Is Amazing How A New Child Can Refocus One's Direction Seconds After Its Birth.