David Bowie Quotes

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

Trust nothing but your own experience.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out.

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

The moment you know you know you know.

Look up here, I'm in heaven.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.

The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead.

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.

There's a terror in knowing what the world is about

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.

Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

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.

Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.

I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

If you come from art, you'll always be art.

The only art I'll ever study is stuff I can steal from.

Rock has always been the devil's music... I believe that rock & roll is dangerous... I feel that we're only heralding something even darker than ourselves.

I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.

Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers.

I surrounded myself with people who indulged my ego. They treated me as though I was Ziggy Stardust or one of my characters, never realising that David Jones might be behind it.

See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.

I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.

I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy.

All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.

In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.