3 December 2020 David Bowie 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.
3 December 2020 David Bowie 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.
3 December 2020 David Bowie I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he’s up there with Bryan Ferry.
3 December 2020 David Bowie I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.
3 December 2020 David Bowie I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange I never thought I would be.
3 December 2020 David Bowie 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.
3 December 2020 David Bowie 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.
3 December 2020 David Bowie 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.
3 December 2020 David Bowie The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
3 December 2020 David Bowie And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.
3 December 2020 David Bowie 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.
3 December 2020 David Bowie 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.
3 December 2020 David Bowie But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
