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A kid’s letter returning a song shows how even simple feedback can make an artist question what they’re doing. Bowie admits he often feels clueless, yet he narrows his later worries to just how long he has and what to do with it. He suggests speaking in extremes to save time and stay focused.

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Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

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Church on time, makes me party.

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Time may change me, but I can't trace time.

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The moment you know you know you know.

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Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

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I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

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

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As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the…

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I've come to the realizations that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time.

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Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.

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When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.

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Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.

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I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums,…

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Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large…

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

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It was like treading water all through the '60s, and when 1970 kicked in, I thought "We're here. Right." God, this is…

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There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me. Because most of…

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When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years…

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I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that…

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There was a time in America not long ago when rock 'n' roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted…

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There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid…

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I think every time I said, "I'm working with Nile [Rodgers]," the reaction was, "Oh, great. I love 'Let's Dance.' " I…

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We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971.…

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I spent so much time in my bedroom. It really was my entire world. I had books up there, my music up…

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What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way…

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A lot of people that I know are bugged with the idea that they have got to have an audience, or they…

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If I hadn't had my children, I would have been discouraged a lot quicker. It would have been much more easy for…

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I kind of miss that "becoming" stage, as most times you really don't know what's around the corner. Now, of course, I've…

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I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...

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I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings...

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I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

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We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say?

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I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.

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It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a…

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It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an…

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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my…

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There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or…

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

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“As you get older the questions come down to two or three. How long have I got and what am I gonna…

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Things have to hit for the moment. That's one of the reasons I'm into video; the image has to hit immediately. I…

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I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

No more free steps to heaven.

I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it's so essential that when I'm involved…

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I went mainstream in a major way with the song "Let's Dance." And what I found I had done was put a box around…

“Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe Put your ray gun to my head Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out…

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…

TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next I Love…

“My brain hurt like a warehouse It had no room to spare I had to cram so many things to store everything in there…

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute…

... And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of…

I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?

I've come to the realizations that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time.

I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.