641 Quotes by David Bowie

My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can’t draw people together like one big huge family, people don’t want that. They want isolation or a tribal thing.

I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I’d be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.

The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there’s much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.

Speak in extremes, it’ll save you time.

I can see light at the end of the tunnel and it isn’t a train.

What I like doing is writing and recording and much more on the, I guess, the – on that creative level. It’s fun interpreting songs and all that, but I wouldn’t like it as a living.

My sexual nature is irrelevant. I’m an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.

I’m afraid of Americans.

I kind of miss that “becoming” stage, as most times you really don’t know what’s around the corner. Now, of course, I’ve kind of knocked on the door and heard a muffled answer. Nevertheless, I still don’t know what the voice is saying, or even what language it’s in.