I’m drawn between the light and dark.
DAVID BOWIE
DAVID BOWIE
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Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.
David BowieDavid Bowie The only art I’ll ever study is stuff I can steal from.
David BowieDavid Bowie 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 BowieDavid Bowie 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?
David BowieDavid Bowie People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.
David BowieDavid Bowie I’ll place my love beneath the stars.
David BowieDavid Bowie 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 BowieDavid Bowie All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.
David BowieDavid Bowie I’m always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don’t even take what I am seriously.
David BowieDavid Bowie I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.
David BowieDavid Bowie I’m not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.
David BowieDavid Bowie I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we’ve made of them…The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.
David BowieDavid Bowie I’m regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.
David BowieDavid Bowie I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
David BowieDavid Bowie I’m very shy. That’s probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.
David BowieDavid Bowie It was fun to be clever.
David BowieDavid Bowie
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Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell Love in a life is a light in the dark.
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