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

“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”

“If it works, it's out of date.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”