“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"”

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

“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”

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

“The moment you know you know you know.”

“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?”

“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.”