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.

It was fun to be clever.

There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds.

I am a D.J., I am what I play.

No more free steps to heaven.

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

I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.