David Quotes

The media is either our salvation or our death.

People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that.

I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer.

I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

You'd like to know me well, but I've got things inside my head that even I can't face.

It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

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.