David Bowie Quotes

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlourdrinking milk shakes cold and longSmiling and waving and lo...

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. Wh...

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home ...

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

Written in pain, written in aweBy a puzzled man who questionedWhat we were here for

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I though...

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how ...

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming

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

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majo...

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

Cause I'd rather stay hereWith all the madmenThan perish with the sadmen roaming freeAnd I'd rather ...

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas.

She will be your living hell.

David Thomas: What do you think is the worst crime that could possibly be committed? What is the cri...

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That'...

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amaz...

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will s...

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or...

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

If I could control tomorrow's haze,The darkened shore wouldn't bother me,If I can't control the web ...

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few year...

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind ...

... And these childrenthat you spit onas they try to change their worldsare immune to your consultat...

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

It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange I never thought I would be.

And you,You can be meanAnd I,I'll drink all the time'Cause we're lovers,And that is a factYes we're ...

I can ask for cigarettes in every language

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldv...

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind ...

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff D...

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. Y...

People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society...

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

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

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolat...

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger...

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth...

I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't thi...

What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books.