David Bowie Quotes - Page 6

I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that.

Ground control to Major Tom.

I'm regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.

I can't keep my fingers out of any pies.

If I hadn't had my children, I would have been discouraged a lot quicker. It would have been much more easy for me to say, "You know what, let the whole thing go. Have a good time, because these people, this place - it's just not worth it." You know? I can't do that anymore. I look into those eyes and they look at me so trustingly that I'm gonna make sure that [they're thinking], "Hey, you did a good thing bringing me into the world, daddy. I'm going to have a great life!"

I haven't changed my views much since I was about 12, really, I've just got a 12-year-old mentality.When I was in school I had a brother who was into Kerouac and he gave me On The Road to read when I was 12 years old. That's still been a big influence.

This ain't rock 'n' roll. This is genocide!

I was told that it was cool to fall in love, and that period was nothing like that to me. I gave too much of my time and energy to another person and they did the same to me and we started burning out against each other. And that is what is termed love.

I couldn't stand to be separated with my wife for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.

I'm gay and always have been, even when I was David Jones.

I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.

And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who doesn't want to be sucked into the tyranny of the mainstream. Because once you get sucked into that, you're dead as an artist.

The media is either our salvation or our death.

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

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

Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.

I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave

I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like.

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

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.