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I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.
I think I am a lot more relaxed about what I have or haven't done.
The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.
Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.
I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.
I guess Ziggy would have been the perfect vehicle to have done with.
If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.
I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.
See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.
Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.
Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.
I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.
This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.
I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.
In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff.
You've got your mother in a whirl, she's not sure if your a boy or a girl.
When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.
Make the best of every moment. We're not evolving. We're not going anywhere.
[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.
I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.
Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
I really floated around in the '60s, because I felt comfortable with nothing.
I'm afraid of Americans; I'm afraid of the world; I'm afraid I can't help it.
Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.
Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist
Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.
Touring with Iggy Pop was something to do. It was good fun. I got drunk a lot.
Let the children use it, let the children lose it, let all the children boogie.
I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave
But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.
Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.
Why bother choosing a certain chair? Because that chair says something about you.
GYBE are among my, erm, two favourite Montreal bands, Arcade Fire being the other.
I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.
I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.
It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.
It's not the side effects of the cocaine. . . . I'm thinking that it must be love.
The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.
Visions of swastikas in my head, plans for everyone. It's in the Whites of my eyes.
Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.
I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.
I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight.
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.
Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out.
My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.
Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.
I could never have done what I did without being involved with Lindsay Kemp's company.