All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

— David Bowie

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of plastic saxophone on the hire-purchase plan.

— David Bowie

... And these children that you spit ones they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through...

— David Bowie

And you, You can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time'Cause we're lovers, And that is a fact Yes we're lovers, And that is that

— David Bowie

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

— David Bowie

Because I'd rather stay herewith all the madmen Than perish with the madmen roaming Freeland I'd rather play herewith all the madmen For I'm quite content they're all as seines me

— David Bowie

David Thomas: What do you think is the worst crime that could possibly be committed? What is the crime that offends you most? David Bowie: Seeing a man humble himself in his capacity as a worker to somebody else, and having to have that accepted as a given situation.

— David Bowie

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

— David Bowie

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

— David Bowie

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

— David Bowie