I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway. David Bowie More Quotes by David Bowie More Quotes From David Bowie I think that my fascination with clothes generally was motivated by trying to create the characters for the stage. David Bowie clothes character thinking When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to be inventive. I think that was the characteristic of my work that I wanted people to see. David Bowie important people thinking I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part. David Bowie heart america facts Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use. David Bowie radio media use I think I am a lot more relaxed about what I have or haven't done. David Bowie relaxed done thinking There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV. David Bowie mtv black artist By the mid-'80s, it was really apparent to me that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life. David Bowie love-life addiction morning Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano. David Bowie heathen mines piano I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. David Bowie hip-hop long thinking I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals. David Bowie wanted writing Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place. David Bowie chords music sometimes It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. Everything falls into a feeling of 'rightness'. David Bowie feelings children fall Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write. David Bowie writing song reality I guess Ziggy would have been the perfect vehicle to have done with. David Bowie vehicle done perfect I thought that I could do some kind of vehicle involving rock musicals and presenting rock and characters and storyline in a completely different fashion. David Bowie rocks fashion character However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums. David Bowie strong running song I never really got the book together for the thing, so I had all the songs and the characters. But by the time we'd gotten it on the road and I'd been doing it for 18 months, oh God, I couldn't wait to move on to something else. David Bowie song book moving I'm a blackstar. I'm a blackstar. David Bowie I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I was indifferent to the arrangements. David Bowie albums song thinking I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship, yet I hid from it for many, many years and pretended to be cynical about it. David Bowie cynical years thinking
