“If it works, it's out of date.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

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

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

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