In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n' roll, the beat… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it -… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
What I like doing is writing and recording and much more on the, I guess, the - on that creative level. It's… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
On "Tonight" I think I was torn dreadfully between writing what I wanted to write, but keeping it in a style that… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“Written in pain, written in awe By a puzzled man who questioned What we were here for - Oh! You Pretty Things ” — David Bowie Copy Share Image
There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me. Because most of… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me because… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don't like to hear happy albums, and when I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I had enormous self-image problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
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. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
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… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
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… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe Put your ray gun to my head Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
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… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next I Love… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“My brain hurt like a warehouse It had no room to spare I had to cram so many things to store everything in there… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
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… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
... And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
