Quotes from David Bowie

And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through. - Changes

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.

Don't you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Turn and face the strange changes.

I'm a born librarian with a sex drive

What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

There's a terror in knowing what the world is about

The truth is, of course, that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

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

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 play everybody.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...

I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings...

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.

I'm an instant star, just add water.

If it works, it's out of date.

The moment you know you know you know.

Don't let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel. - Golden Years

And you, You can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time 'Cause we're lovers, And that is a fact Yes we're lovers, And that is that - "Heroes"

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man Just a mortal with potential of a superman I'm living on. - Quicksand

Look up here, I'm in heaven! I've got scars that can't be seen I've got drama, can't be stolen, Everybody knows me now (...) This way or no way You know I'll be free Just like that bluebird Now, ain't that just like me? - Lazarus

Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.

If you feel safe in the area you're working in, you're not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you're capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don't feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you're just about in the right place to do something exciting.