David Bowie Quotes

“I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.”

“If you feel safe in the area you're working in, you're not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you're capable of being in. When you don't feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you're just about in the right place to do something exciting.”

“Ageing is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.”

“Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.”

“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?”

“Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.”

“That's the shock: all clichés are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is.”

“The truth is of course that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.”

“I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.”

“As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.”

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

“Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.”

“When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.”

“I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.”

“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.”

“What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That's what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew.”

“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.”

“I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I really do just write and record what interests me.”

“I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement. It had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.”

“I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in.”

“What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.”

“I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.”

“All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity.”

“Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.”

“There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me. Most of my favourite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.”