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"There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on."
"I haven't changed my views much since I was about 12, really, I've just got a 12-year-old mentality.When I was in school I had a brother who was into Kerouac and he gave me On The Road to read when I was 12 years old. That's still been a big influence."
"As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?"
"I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity."
"The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that."
"Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them."
"I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important."
"In my madness I see your face in mine."
"Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue."
"I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people."
"I couldn't stand to be separated with my wife for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time."
"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 think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day."
"You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn't it popular?"
"It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece."
"David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote."
"I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking."
"Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere."
"Ground control to Major Tom."
"It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home."