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.”

“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.”

“I'm very at ease, and I like it. 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. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!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”

“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.”

“As you get older the questions come down to two or three. How long have I got and what am I gonna do with the time I've got left?”

“I'm afraid of Americans.”

“Shoot you down. Bang! Bang!- Velvet Goldmine”

“This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.”

“I should live my life on bended kneeIf I can't control my destinyYou've gotta have a schemeYou've gotta have a planIn the world of today, for tomorrow's man- No Control”

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

“The moment you know you know you know.”

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

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

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

“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming”

“Don't let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel.- Golden Years”

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

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

“And when the clothes are strewn,Don't be afraid of the room.Touch the fullness of her breast,Feel the love of her caress...She will be your living end.- Lady Grinning Soul”

“I'm an instant star, just add water.”

“I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings...”

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

“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.”

“I rate Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he`s up there with Bryan Ferry.”

“I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.”

“I'm not a prophet or a stone aged manJust a mortal with potential of a supermanI'm living on.-Quicksand”

“Turn and face the strange changes.”

“Keep your 'lectric eye on me babePut your ray gun to my headPress your space face close to mine, loveFreak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!- Moonage Daydream”

“And you,You can be meanAnd I,I'll drink all the time'Cause we're lovers,And that is a factYes we're lovers,And that is that- "Heroes"”

“It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love.It's too late to be grateful,It's too late to be hateful,It's too late to be late again,The European canon is here.- Station to Station”

“We passed upon the stair, We spoke of was and when.Although I wasn't there,He said I was his friend,Which came as some surprise.I spoke into his eyesI thought you died alone, a long long time agoOh no, not me,I never lost control.You're face to faceWith the man who sold the world.I laughed and shook his hand,And made my way back home.I searched for form and land,For years and years I roamed.I gazed a gazely stareAt all the millions here.We must have died alone,A long, long time ago.Who knows? Not me.We never lost control.You're face to faceWith the man who sold the worldWho knows? Not me.We never lost control.You're face to faceWith the man who sold the world- The Man Who Sold the World”

“To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.”

“Speak in extremes, it'll save you time. ”

“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.”

“There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.- Queen Bitch”

“I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I play everybody.”

“And these children that you spit onAs they try to change their worldsAre immune to your consultations.They're quite aware of what they're going through.- Changes”

“If it works, it's out of date.”

“No more free steps to heaven.- It's No Game”

“If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.- Sweet Thing”

“Some make you sing and some make you scream,One makes you wish that you'd never been seen.But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier-mache,Making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay.If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.- Sweet Thing”