I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.
David BowieWhen you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.
David BowieThe world that I inhabit in reality is probably very different world than the one people expect that I would be in. It is quite sedate. It's far removed from a lot of what they would feel to be the limousine traveling rock existence, or whatever.
David BowieA song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.
David Bowie