David Bowie Quotes

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

Money goes to money heaven, body goes to body hell.

I just put drugs down to luck. I persevere quite honestly, and I've got a fair amount of discipline that keeps me out of deep water.

Ironically, style doesn't come even closely related to fashion. It's got nothing to do [with clothes].

I guess, - a greater number of the 26 or so albums that I've made are known in Europe than they are in America.

I'm still younger than Jagger... Most people are.

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

I'm a blackstar. I'm a blackstar.

The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.

Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain.

He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.

A lot of people provide me with quotes. They suggest all kinds of things to say and I do, really, because I'm not very hip at all.

The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.

Wham, bam, thank you Ma'am.

I just tried everything out - I mean, everything. Even my sexual orientation; I was just searching for what I really wanted. And I didn't quite know.

I'm not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me; I'm not sure it's what I want. I don't think I want to be a designer-rock artist.

I really floated around in the '60s, because I felt comfortable with nothing.

Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe Put your ray gun to my head Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!

I'm afraid of Americans; I'm afraid of the world; I'm afraid I can't help it.

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.

Let the children use it, let the children lose it, let all the children boogie.

Visions of swastikas in my head, plans for everyone. It's in the Whites of my eyes.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

I always write well in New York.

There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.

I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.

I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be.

I'm afraid of Americans.

Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous - a battered old roue - I can just see him. An aging rock star doesn't have to opt out life. When I'm 50, I'll prove it.

I don't live for the stage. I don't live for an audience.

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

What I like doing is writing and recording and much more on the, I guess, the - on that creative level. It's fun interpreting songs and all that, but I wouldn't like it as a living.

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

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.

There's not much point in getting any heavier... there's too many things to read and look at.

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned.

And you, You can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time 'Cause we're lovers, And that is a fact Yes we're lovers, And that is that

I think that my fascination with clothes generally was motivated by trying to create the characters for the stage.

Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.

Sweet head, give you sweet head.

With "Let's Dance," there was actually a chance that I was actually going to be able to keep the money I had made.

I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I was indifferent to the arrangements.

When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to be inventive. I think that was the characteristic of my work that I wanted people to see.

I think getting married and then running away for 10 months would be an absolute disaster.

I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years.