The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

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.

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.

You can begin really looking for a relationship . . . when you can (appreciate) the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.

There was a time in America not long ago when rock 'n' roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted to go see Chuck Berry were completely forbidden.

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.