David Bowie Quotes

If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

I don’t make changes to confuse anyone. I’m just searching. That’s what causes me to change. I’m just searching for myself.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

One day I realized that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can’t even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life. That’s when you can begin really looking for a relationship. When you can appreciate the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.

The people who don’t know so much about me regard me more sexually.

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

Keep your ‘lectric eye on me babe Put your ray gun to my head Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!

And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations. They’re quite aware of what they’re going through. –

Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain.

I made a more mature approach to industrial music.

Some of us, I think, us small, pompous arty ones probably read too much George Steiner and kind of got the idea that we were entering to this kind of post-culture age and that we’d better do something postmodernist – quickly, before somebody else did.