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 BOWIEI’m very shy. That’s probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.
More David Bowie Quotes
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Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.
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There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.
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I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.
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Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.
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I’m always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don’t even take what I am seriously.
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Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.
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I’m a born librarian with a sex drive.
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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?
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It was fun to be clever.
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I can ask for cigarettes in every language.
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My sexual nature is irrelevant. I’m an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.
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The only art I’ll ever study is stuff I can steal from.
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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.
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The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
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I’ve come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing half the time.
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I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
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Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
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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.
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Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.
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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.
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I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.
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The media is either our salvation or our death.
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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.
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People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.
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She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind.
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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.
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