David Bowie

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist. ”

I don't have a problem with ageing - in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily... it doesn't faze me at all. ”

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

I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever. ”

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

I'm responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension. ”

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

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist. ”

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

Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage. ”