It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love. It's too late to be grateful, It's too late to be hateful, It's too late to be late again, The European cannon is here.

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.

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

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

People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."

David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.

I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.