641 Quotes by David Bowie

You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him.

I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

They're the salt of the earth, those girls. They don't sit each night and compare notes on groups, criticising lyrics, asking if it's valid. They just play the record... yeah, and maybe they dance. I love them. I love them dearly

It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.

Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.

Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.

I knew that I was 'interesting' at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.

I didn't say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing.