I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

— David Bowie

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized autobiography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

— David Bowie

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

— David Bowie

I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!

— David Bowie

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio, and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

— David Bowie

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange I never thought I would be.

— David Bowie

I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlourdrinking milk shakes cold and long Smiling and waving and looking so fined on't think you knew you were in this song

— David Bowie

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.

— David Bowie

It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange I never thought I would be.

— David Bowie

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

— David Bowie