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.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out.

Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.

The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.

The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.