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" I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it's so essential that when I'm involved in the actual process, my so-called 'real life' becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying. "

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" These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that. "

David Bowie

Feel

Simple

" There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time. "

" All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker. "

" There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much. "

" Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano. "

" 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 have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation. "

" 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. "

David Bowie

Seen

Mean

" I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment. "

" What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated. "

" I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity. "

" There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means. "

" Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place. "

" I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries. "

David Bowie

Integrity

People

" The skin of my character in 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' was some concoction, a spermatozoon of an alien nature that was obscene and weird-looking. "

" I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. I don't need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute. "

" Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It's become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock. "

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

" The Internet carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic, nihilistic. "

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

" I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does. "

David Bowie

Feel

Music

" I knew that I was 'interesting' at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage. "

" I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it. "

" Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together. "

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

" Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society. "

" I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. "

" I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music. "

" Being shoved into the top-40 scene was an unusual experience. It was great I'd become accessible to a huge audience but not terribly fulfilling. "

" My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity. "

David Bowie

Charity

Children