David Bowie
David Bowie
David Robert Jones, better known by his stage name David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over five decades, regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly influencing popular music. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million worldwide, made him one of the world's best-selling music...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth8 January 1947
CityLondon, England
I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.
... 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...
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.
It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.
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?
For here, I'm sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet earth is blue, and there is nothing I can do.
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.
I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.
In my madness I see your face in mine.
I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!