641 Quotes by David Bowie

I’m gay and always have been, even when I was David Jones.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

Rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that’s coming out today, people are just, they’ve got it on as background music. It’s kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it’s very disposable.

There’s a taste in my mouth and it’s no taste at all.

I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through – creating a through point for a theatrical device.

Radio in England is nonexistent. It’s very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

Rebel, rebel, you’ve torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.

It’s only forever, not long at all.