David Bowie Quotes

If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

One day I realized 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. That's when you can begin really looking for a relationship. When you can appreciate the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it is fantastic at. I mean, I live by the Internet in terms of research and it's incredible - there's nothing that you can't find out about. It's not stopped me going to bookshops but I must say that I don't go into as many because any book I want.

I'm a born librarian with a sex drive.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race

Trust nothing but your own experience.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out.

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

The moment you know you know you know.

Look up here, I'm in heaven.

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.

You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it's just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later.

The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead.

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

I've always been very chauvinistic, even in my boy-obsessed days. But I was always a gentleman. I alwaysd treated my boys like real ladies. Always escorted them properly and, in fact, I suppose if I were a lot older - like 40 or 50 - I'd be a wonderful sugar daddy to some little queen down in Kensington. I'd have a houseboy named Richard to order around.

I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.

There's a terror in knowing what the world is about

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

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.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.

Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.

I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

If you come from art, you'll always be art.

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.