The truest form of any form of revolutionary left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, and Allan Ginsberg's period. Excuse me but that was where it was at. The hippies, I'm afraid, don't know what's happening.
David BowieI 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 BowieOn 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.
David BowiePeople will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that.
David BowieIf you feel safe in the area youโre working in, youโre not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel youโre capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you donโt feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, youโre just about in the right place to do something exciting.
David BowieTV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next I Love Lucy, the great American domestic comedy. It's about how people really live, not like Lucy, who never touched dishwater. It's about people living and hustling to survive.
David Bowie