David Bowie Quotes - Page 3

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

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

I've been putting out the fire with gasoline.

You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.

My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.

I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.

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 will play everybody.

I'm a thinker not a talker.

There were lots of nightly relationships. But the reason you don't want to make a commitment is not that you're such a freewheeling, adventurous person, it's because you're scared shitless that it will turn out like your mother and father.

Look up here, I'm in heaven.

I'll place my love beneath the stars.

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy.

It was fun to be clever.

I'm still younger than Jagger... Most people are.

I'm drawn between the light and dark.

I can ask for cigarettes in every language

I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine.

The only art I'll ever study is stuff I can steal from.

I never heard so many kids talk about just doing anything to be famous. I mean, yeah, fame is part of the deal when you're a kid and you think, I wanna go into music, but everybody that I knew was really doing it because of their love for it. I don't see so much of that anymore.

Of course, we found out later Syd Barrett had mental problems. But there was something so otherworldly about him. He was hovering, like, six inches above the ground.

I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.

You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into four or five-word sections; mix em up and reconnect them. You can get some pretty interesting idea combinations like this. You can use them as is or, if you have a craven need to not lose control, bounce off these ideas and write whole new sections.

Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.