David Bowie

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

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.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

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

I had enormous self-image, problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do now except I enjoy it now. I'm not driven like I was in my twenties. I was driven to get through life very quickly.

I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

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.

I'm a born librarian with a sex drive.

It's not the side effects of the cocaine. . . . I'm thinking that it must be love.

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

The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party.

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

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.

Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.

You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.