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 always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.
If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.
I told them I'd only do it if they got Arcade Fire to perform. They're fantastic.
I heard the news today, oh boy.
I wanted to create an environment where not just my fans but all music lovers could be a part of the same community.
He's a friendly and caring guy whom I really respect for his knowledge of touring. Not to mention my favorite brand of coffee is consistently backstage every night.
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.
Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.
I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.
Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.
I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.
I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.
What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That's what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.
Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.