Quotes from David Bowie

There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or a Duchamp. It amuses me that they thought that what they did would be a good way of making art.

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.

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

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.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say?

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous - a battered old roue - I can just see him. An aging rock star doesn't have to opt out life. When I'm 50, I'll prove it.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

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

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.

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

Church on time, makes me party.

The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.

Time may change me, but I can't trace time.

There was a time in America not long ago when rock 'n' roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted to go see Chuck Berry were completely forbidden.

... And these childrenthat you spit onas they try to change their worldsare immune to your consultations.They're quite awareof what they're going through...

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'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together. In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.