On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awakened the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

— David Bowie

People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society and culture they were brought up in. People have attention spans of five seconds and as much depth as a glass of water.

— David Bowie

She will be your living hell.

— David Bowie

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas.

— David Bowie

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

— David Bowie

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology, but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

— David Bowie

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

— David Bowie

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

— David Bowie

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming

— David Bowie

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

— David Bowie