Quotes on Bowie

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it's a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That's a big step. Maybe without me, there wouldn't be Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn't be me. Without Quentin Crisp, there wouldn't have been Bowie. So everything is part of a big daisy chain.

This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.