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David Bowie

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

Feeling God Man Mindset Myself Presence State World
I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.
DAVID BOWIE

Artist Believe Integrity Loyalty Myself People Reality Style Time
It’s a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there’s a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that’s how some of us conduct our lives.
DAVID BOWIE

Build Compulsion Life Live Notice Ourselves Pattern
Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you’re pretty much on the way out.
DAVID BOWIE

Alive Lose Way Wonder Yourself
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
DAVID BOWIE

Body Challenge Death Disturb Life Yourself
Look up here, I’m in heaven.
DAVID BOWIE

Heaven Myself
You can’t stand still on one point for your entire life.
DAVID BOWIE

Life Stand Yourself
I can ask for cigarettes in every language.
DAVID BOWIE

Funny Language Myself Smoking
I’ll place my love beneath the stars.
DAVID BOWIE

Myself Place Stardom
Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.
DAVID BOWIE

Best Evolution Moments Travel
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.
DAVID BOWIE

Fear People Religion Spiritual
It was fun to be clever.
DAVID BOWIE

Clever Fun One Liner
Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.
DAVID BOWIE

Comfortable Home Master Yourself
I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.
DAVID BOWIE

Age Live Man Mortal Myself Potential
The minute you know you’re on safe ground, you’re dead.
DAVID BOWIE

Death Ground Safety
I don’t make changes to confuse anyone. I’m just searching. That’s what causes me to change. I’m just searching for myself.
DAVID BOWIE

Change Confusion Myself Search
I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.
DAVID BOWIE

Easy heavy Myself Writing
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
DAVID BOWIE

Ghost Hands Music Myself Understand
You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn’t it popular?
DAVID BOWIE

Day End Music Pieces Popular Work Yourself
You can neither win nor lose if you don’t run the race
DAVID BOWIE

Lose Race Run Win Yourself
Speak in extremes, it’ll save you time.
DAVID BOWIE

Advice Save Talk Time Yourself
The end comes when the infinites arrive.
DAVID BOWIE

Arrival End Infinity
I could never, ever talk to my father. I really loved him, but we couldn’t talk about anything together. There was this really British thing that being even remotely emotional was absolutely verboten.
DAVID BOWIE

Emotional Father Love Rule Talk Togetherness
Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.
DAVID BOWIE

Choice People Run Silence Small Togetherness
If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.
DAVID BOWIE

Alive Live Myself Wake Up
I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don’t like to hear happy albums, and when I am really sad I don’t wanna hear happy albums… and I tend to gravitate towards the lonely and isolated anyway when I write.
DAVID BOWIE

Album Gravity Happiness Hate Isolation Lonely Music Myself Sad
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

Feeling Myself Need Qualify Work

Time may change me, but I can’t trace time.

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