Feel Quotes

I'm not very articulate.

David Bowie

Tags: Very Articulate

I've always tended to write songs prolifically.

David Bowie

Tags: Always Write Songs

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

David Bowie

Tags: Music Power Wanted

I'll tell you who I absolutely adore: Ian McEwan.

David Bowie

Tags: You Who Tell

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

David Bowie

Tags: Men Them Take

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

David Bowie

Tags: You Really Want

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

David Bowie

Tags: Just World Little

Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.

David Bowie

Tags: Work Some Mine

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

David Bowie

Tags: You Put Sometimes

I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight.

David Bowie

Tags: Think Always I Think

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

David Bowie

Tags: Know Going Where

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

David Bowie

Tags: Very Bad Use

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

David Bowie

Tags: Many Times Woman

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.

David Bowie

Tags: Write Away Writer

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.

David Bowie

Tags: About More Been

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

David Bowie

Tags: You Think Would

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

David Bowie

Tags: Business Think I Think

I'm an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

David Bowie

Tags: Get Up Before

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

David Bowie

Tags: Work Me Just

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.

David Bowie

Tags: Work About Get

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.

David Bowie

Tags: Relationship Me Like

I couldn't have written things like 'Low' and 'Heroes,' those particular albums, if it hadn't have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.

David Bowie

Tags: Like Been Things

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

David Bowie

Tags: Music Me Things

The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg's period. Excuse me, but that's where it was at.

David Bowie

Tags: You Me Want

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

David Bowie

Tags: Music Me About

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

David Bowie

Tags: Change Me Always

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

David Bowie

Tags: Like Want Would

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.

David Bowie

Tags: Age Learning About

There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or a Duchamp. It amuses me that they thought that what they did would be a good way of making art.

David Bowie

Tags: Good Me Just

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.

David Bowie

Tags: God You Me

I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.

David Bowie

Tags: Time Good Think

I'm 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.

David Bowie

Tags: Money Finance Will

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

David Bowie

Tags: You Who Life

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'

David Bowie

Tags: Me Because Always

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

David Bowie

Tags: Really Them Go

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

David Bowie

Tags: Intelligence Even Believe

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.

David Bowie

Tags: Time You About

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm 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.

David Bowie

Tags: Dad Me Get