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. – David Bowie
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. – David Bowie
There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist. – David Bowie
Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man. – David Bowie
I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman. – David Bowie
I’m always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don’t even take what I am seriously. – David Bowie
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. – David Bowie
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. – David Bowie
What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people. – David Bowie
I don’t see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely. – David Bowie
I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write. – David Bowie
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age. – David Bowie
As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left? – David Bowie
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. – David Bowie
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. – David Bowie
I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar. – David Bowie
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. – David Bowie
I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on. – David Bowie
I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n’ roll, the beat writers. – David Bowie
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. – David Bowie
Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I’ve seen on some of the songs that I’ve written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in. – David Bowie
I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance. – David Bowie
It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece. – David Bowie
I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic. – David Bowie
I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn’t have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that – except I couldn’t afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering. – David Bowie
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. – David Bowie
Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society. – David Bowie
