I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.

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

I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.

Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of "The Elephant Man" and just recently collaborated on "Lazarus," an off-Broadway musical that's a sequel to his 1976 role in the film "The Man Who Fell To Earth."

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

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.