When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band. David Bowie More Quotes by David Bowie More Quotes From David Bowie I'm drawn between the light and dark. David Bowie lightdarkphilosophy I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like. David Bowie fightingbelievepeople A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long. David Bowie careerslongyears My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself. David Bowie rolesactorsplay You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into four or five-word sections; mix em up and reconnect them. You can get some pretty interesting idea combinations like this. You can use them as is or, if you have a craven need to not lose control, bounce off these ideas and write whole new sections. David Bowie cuttingwritingideas I surrounded myself with people who indulged my ego. They treated me as though I was Ziggy Stardust or one of my characters, never realising that David Jones might be behind it. David Bowie egocharacterpeople 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. David Bowie wreckspatternsneeds There's a thing that just as you go to sleep, if you keep your elbows elevated that you will never go below the dream stage. And I've used that quite a lot and it keeps me dreaming much longer than if I just relaxed. David Bowie elbowsdreamsleep On "Tonight" I think I was torn dreadfully between writing what I wanted to write, but keeping it in a style that would follow up what I had just done. That's where I feel I was untrue to myself as an artist . . . that album and, to a lesser extent, "Never Let Me Down." David Bowie artistwritingthinking I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me. David Bowie individualwayneeds I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking. David Bowie wellsnegativethinking To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily. David Bowie motivationtakenwriting Turn and face the strange. David Bowie turnsstrangefaces I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human. David Bowie music-and-lifeglam-rocklife-and-death I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day. David Bowie westerncountrythinking Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place. David Bowie heyfacesmen I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it? David Bowie piecessongthinking I made a more mature approach to industrial music. David Bowie approachmaturemade I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'. David Bowie lennonrock-and-rollrocks It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead. David Bowie addictionalcohollong
