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" I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last. "

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" It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece. "

David Bowie

Situation

Sometimes

" 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. "

" There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist. "

" Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.' "

David Bowie

Spiritual

Life

" The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg's period. Excuse me, but that's where it was at. "

David Bowie

Call

Whatever

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

" 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. "

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

" I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing. "

" I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic. "

" A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. "

" I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing. "

" As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left? "

" 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

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

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

" I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n' roll, the beat writers. "

" 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 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. "

" Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age. "

David Bowie

Learning

Letting Go

" I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously. "

David Bowie

I Am

People

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them. "

" That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one. "

David Bowie

Hell

Short

" I couldn't have written things like 'Low' and 'Heroes,' those particular albums, if it hadn't have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there. "

David Bowie

Things

Atmosphere

" With a suit, always wear big British shoes, the ones with large welts. There's nothing worse than dainty little Italian jobs at the end of the leg line. "

" 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. "

David Bowie

Think

Thought

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