People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.
I’m not at ease with the word “love.”
I always write well in New York.
The best DJs in the world know how to pull in music from all over the place and make it work as a cohesive whole.
Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of “The Elephant Man” and just recently collaborated on “Lazarus,” an off-Broadway musical that’s a sequel to his 1976 role in the film “The Man Who Fell To Earth.”
I was told that it was cool to fall in love, and that period was nothing like that to me. I gave too much of my time and energy to another person and they did the same to me and we started burning out against each other. And that is what is termed love...
The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.
Critics I don’t understand. They get too intellectual. They’re not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.
What I like doing is writing and recording and much more on the, I guess, the – on that creative level. It’s fun interpreting songs and all that, but I wouldn’t like it as a living.
I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.
I never really had much of an interest in fashion.
I never really got the book together for the thing, so I had all the songs and the characters. But by the time we’d gotten it on the road and I’d been doing it for 18 months, oh God, I couldn’t wait to move on to something else.
Things have to hit for the moment. That’s one of the reasons I’m into video; the image has to hit immediately. I adore video and the whole cutting up of it.
I thought that I could do some kind of vehicle involving rock musicals and presenting rock and characters and storyline in a completely different fashion.
I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn’t like.
There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I’m surprised aren’t being used on MTV.
There’s a thing that just as you go to sleep, if you keep your elbows elevated that you will never go below the dream stage. And I’ve used that quite a lot and it keeps me dreaming much longer than if I just relaxed.
When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.
I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.
Mine is really – Ziggy Stardust, characters, “Let’s Dance.” That’s me in the American.