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" I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song. "

David Bowie

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" I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on. "

" 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. "

" For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in. "

" I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds. "

David Bowie

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" Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant. "

" Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming. "

" I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering. "

" All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it. "

" Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings. "

" However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums. "

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

" 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. "

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" Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use. "

" I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write. "

" I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar. "

" I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write. "

" It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be. "

" Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I'd be very happy. It's not my favorite thing to do. "

" 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 will play everybody. "

" I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents. "

" I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time. "

" 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. "