Quotes by David Bowie

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

Fame itself... doesnt really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus ones direction seconds after its birth.

I realized the other day that Ive lived in New York longer than Ive lived anywhere else. Its amazing: I am a New Yorker. Its strange I never thought I would be.

Its amazing: I am a New Yorker. Its strange I never thought I would be.

Im not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

Im 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.

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.

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

Songs dont have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what Ive done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldnt live past 30.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. Its a lot more fun progressing than looking back. Thats why I need to throw curve balls.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

Im very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didnt think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel thats happening to me. Im rather surprised at who I am, because Im actually like my dad!

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, Im going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, Im going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.