Quotes from David Bowie

My brain hurt like a warehouse It had no room to spare I had to cram so many things to store everything in there And all the fat-skinny people And all the tall-short people And all the nobody people And all the somebody people I never thought I'd need so many people. - Five Years

An dem Tag, an dem du denkst, du kannst nicht mehr besser werden, fängst du an, immer den gleichen Song zu spielen.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

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.

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

Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I'm very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself.

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

It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.

I'll tell you who I absolutely adore: Ian McEwan.

I'm not very articulate.

If we could be heroes, if just for one day.

If I could control tomorrow's haze, The darkened shore wouldn't bother me, If I can't control the web we weave, My life will be lost in the fallen leaves...

I don't know where I'm going but I promise it won't be boring.

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

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

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one's emotional plane.